Inchoative integration of content based image retrieval: Shodhani

Nowadays, Content Based Image retrieval (CBIR) has been one of the most interesting research areas among researchers of technology-giants and academic institutions. Various CBIR techniques in literature show that there are three key properties in image retrieval viz. color, texture and shape. In this paper a detailed classification along with the challenges and issues of CBIR techniques evolved during recent years covering various methods for segmentation, feature extraction, indexing and feature transformation are described. Also, a technique of combining feature transformation with clustering algorithm is proposed for efficient image retrieval.