Content Based Image Retrieval: A Survey on the Start of Art

Evolution of Internet has lead to the rapid increase in tremendous amount of information in the form of text or other multimedia. It is quite obvious, due to such availability, storing, browsing, searching and retrieval has become a great challenge. This paper addresses on the challenges and issues in the content based image retrieval (CBIR). Though there exist various approaches and methods for content based image retrieval proposed by researchers till date, the challenge on retrieving the desired image based on the query remains to be a challenge. We address the state of art on the several features, techniques that would result in a research prototype for designing a commercial CBIR system.