Furniture extraction from designed decoration and retrieval of similar items from furniture database

The objective of this project is to extract furniture items from an image which includes multiple furniture items, and then find similar items from the database with the extracted furniture items. The image could be downloaded from online websites or taken using cameras. An android application is developed to process images taken using the phone camera. The processing process can be divided into three steps: first, certain image segmentation techniques are applied to split out each individual furniture item; then, an object recognition scheme is applied to each segmented furniture item; finally a shape descriptor is used to retrieve similar items to the segmented furniture items from database of each classified category. Keywords—Furniture extraction, object recognition, feature matching, Andriod application