A survey on methods for colour image indexing and retrieval in image databases

Color is a feature of the great majority of content-based image retrieval systems. However the robustness, effectiveness, and efficiency of its use in image indexing are still open issues. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the methods for color image indexing and retrieval described in the literature. In particular, image preprocessing, the features used to represent color information, and the measures adopted to compute the similarity between the features of two images are critically analyzed.

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