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To create the codebook, K-means clustering is applied to quantize visual features into a smaller set of visual words. Finally, the feature vectors extracted from the BoVW model are fed into a support vector machines (SVMs) classifier for image retrieval. An inverted index technique based on cosine distance metric is applied to sort the retrieved images to the similarity of the query image. Experiments on three benchmark datasets (Corel-1000, Caltech-10 and Oxford Flower-17) show that the presented CBIR technique can deliver comparable results to other state-of-the-art techniques, by achieving average accuracies of 92.94%, 98.40% and 84.94% on these datasets, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23031653","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,3]],"date-time":"2023-02-03T01:40:25Z","timestamp":1675388425000},"page":"1653","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Hybrid Bag-of-Visual-Words and FeatureWiz Selection for Content-Based Visual Information Retrieval"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6207-8418","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Samy","family":"Bakheet","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt"},{"name":"Institute for Information Technology and Communications (IIKT), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3632-2402","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ayoub","family":"Al-Hamadi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Information Technology and Communications (IIKT), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0273-5636","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Emadeldeen","family":"Soliman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mohamed","family":"Heshmat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bagwari, A., Sinha, A., Singh, N., Garg, N., and Kanti, J. 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