An Efficient Indexing Algorithm for CBIR

Due to the continuous development of high quality multimedia technologies and rapid growth in the computational power along with availability of huge sized storage devices, digital image archives of very large size are being created day by day on the ever growing WWW through many commercial, research & development and academic web sites. The bulk of digitized images over the Internet are attracting significant research efforts for the development of tools to manage the visual data with their fast and effective retrieval. Towards the beginning of the previous decade, the breakthrough techniques called content based image retrieval has emerged in image retrieval field. This technique uses the contents of the image data for segmenting, indexing, retrieval and searching of relevant images from image repository. This paper mainly concentrates on the indexing phase of the image retrieval system for development of an efficient indexing algorithm of CBIR systems.