A Survey on Features and Techniques in Content Based Image Retrieval

Abstract

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is widely adopted method for finding images from vast collection of images in the database. As the collections of images are growing at a rapid rate, demand for efficient and effective tools for retrieval of query images from database is increased significantly. Among them, content-based image retrieval systems (CBIR) have become very popular for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images as it requires relatively less human intervention. The requirement for development of CBIR is enhanced due to tremendous growth in volume of images as well as the widespread application in multiple fields. Texture, color, shaped, contours etc are the important entities to represent and search the images. These features of images are extracted and implemented for a similarity check among images. In this paper, we have conducted a survey on the CBIR techniques and its approaches and their usage in various domains.