Intelligent Image Retrieval Techniques: A Survey

Abstract

In the current era of digital communication, the use of digital images has increased for expressing, sharing andinterpreting information. While working with digital images, quite often it is necessary to search for a specific image for aparticular situation based on the visual contents of the image. This task looks easy if you are dealing with tens of imagesbut it gets more difficult when the number of images goes from tens to hundreds and thousands, and the same contentbasedsearching task becomes extremely complex when the number of images is in the millions. To deal with thesituation, some intelligent way of content-based searching is required to fulfill the searching request with right visualcontents in a reasonable amount of time. There are some really smart techniques proposed by researchers for efficientand robust content-based image retrieval. In this research, the aim is to highlight the efforts of researchers whoconducted some brilliant work and to provide a proof of concept for intelligent content-based image retrieval techniques.