In this paper, we propose a novel image retrieval method called hybrid information
descriptors (HIDs) consisting of mutual information descriptors (MIDs) and self information
descriptors (SIDs). Based on the physiological structure of human eyes and visual
perception mechanism, HIDs are designed to explore the internal correlations among
different image feature spaces with image structure and multi-scale analysis, not only
characterizing the low-level features, such as color, shape and texture, but also imitating the …