COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SPATIAL COLOR AND SHAPE FEATURES FOR LOW LEVEL CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

In multimedia technology, image data in various formats is becoming available at an explosive rate. Various multimedia systems need huge image data collection. Such data sources need search and retrieval of image databases to provide open access to relevant information source. Thus content-based information retrieval has become active research area. Development of Content Based Image Retrieval is enhanced due to growth in need of variety of images in multimedia technology. In particular texture, color and shape features of image are used to define similarity among images. In this paper a brief overview of local feature descriptors of image is given