FeatSet+: Visual Features Extracted from Public Image Datasets

Abstract

Real-world applications generate large amounts of images every day. With the generalized use of social media, users frequently share images acquired by smartphones. Also, hospitals, clinics, exhibits, factories, and other facilities generate images with potential use for many applications. Processing the generated images usually requires feature extraction, which can be time-consuming and laborious. In this paper, we present FeatSet+, a compilation of color, texture and shape visual features extracted from 17 open image datasets reported in the literature. FeatSet+ provides a collection of 11 distinct visual features, extracted by well-known Feature Extraction Methods (FEMs) such as LBP, Haralick, and Color Layout. We organized the available features in a standard collection, including the metadata and labels, when available. Eleven of the datasets also contain classes, which aid the evaluation of supervised methods such as classifiers and clustering tasks. FeatSet+ is available for download in a public repository as sql scripts and csv files. Additionally, FeatSet+ provides a description of the domain of each dataset, including the reference to the original work and link. We show the potential applicability of FeatSet+ in four computational tasks: multi-attribute analysis and retrieval, visual analysis using Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) and Principal Components Analysis (PCA), global feature classification, and dimensionality reduction. FeatSet+ can be employed to evaluate supervised and non-supervised learning tasks, also widely supporting Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) applications and complex data indexing using Metric Access Methods (MAMs).