Towards a Content Based Image Retrieval Approach

Abstract

Nowadays Content Based Image Retrieval is getting more and more attention from organizations, governments and researchers because of the large number of images available in databases across the world. There is a growing interest to search for images in Multimedia databases since they carry most of the intended messages and are very expressive. However, it is not only difficult but time-consuming task to perform. Because of large collection of images to search from.

This paper reviews current trends in the area of area of Content Based Image Retrieval and highlights areas which need improvement.