本論文提出一個在點對點網路資料庫進行影像檢索(P2P-CBIR)的系統。系統中包含一個自動化前級處理單元，並提供檢索範圍可調與漸進檢索的功能。在前級處理方面，以多階層的灰階型態運算來辨別出前景物件的區域。本法運算規律性高，非常適合應用在大型影像資料庫處理影像前景切割。在檢索方法上，我們採用可結合多種特徵之多詢例檢索法，運用在點對點網路上可以在維持原有精確度的情況下，有效的降低網路流量。本論文所提出的範圍與精確度可調的P2P-CBIR方法可以有效改進檢索效能(回取率/檢索範圍)，主要是同時考量:(1) 傳送檢索訊息策略降低檢索範圍與; (2) 回傳相關資料時利用多層點對點過率有效提升準確度。實驗結果顯示本論文所提的方法，比之前所提之煙火式(Firework Query Model) 檢索及廣先搜尋 (Breadth-First Search)方法之檢索效能都還要好。我們也就系統觀點提出最佳化的程序:當線上使用者人數固定時，可以提供設定參數使得檢索精確度最高。實驗結果顯示最佳化程序可以提高回取率達1.5至2倍，在相同回取率下，可降低處理時間約50%。我們也採取系統參數更新的程序，可有效提昇回取率25%。

A peer-to-peer content-based image retrieval system (P2P-CBIR) that utilizes an intelligent preprocessing to identify the foregrounds (FGs) and provides scalable retrieval function has been proposed. In the FG identification unit, the gray-level Morphological open/close by reconstruction (MOR/MCR) operations are utilized in a multi-scale approach to construct a background mesh to identify the image foregrounds (FGs). With the highly regular MOR/MCR process, the proposed FGID method is capable of dealing with FG segmentations for volume images. The proposed peer CBIR search engine that utilized multi-stance query with multi-feature types helps to effectively reduce network traffic while maintaining high retrieval accuracy. The scalable retrieval function can adaptively control the query scope and progressively refine the query results. It improves the query efficiency (recall-rate/query-scope) by effectively combining the: (1) forwarding query message (forward phase) to reduce the query scope and; (2) transmitting retrieval results (backward phase) that activated peers keep filtering high similarity images on the link-path toward the query peer. Experiments show that the query efficiency of the scalable retrieval approach is better than previous methods, i.e., firework query model and breadth-first search (BFS). We also proposed to optimally configure the P2P-CBIR system and perform regular update procedures such that, under a certain number of online users, it would yield the highest recall rate. Simulations demonstrate that, with the optimal configuration, recall rates can be improved to 1.5 to 2.0 times larger while the retrieval processing time is reduced to 50% of the original, under the same number of on-line users. The update procedure can further improve the recall rate up to 25%.

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