Content- Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) System

As a partial fulfillment of the Final Year Project, this project explores of Content- Based
Image Retrieval (CBIR), also known as Query by Image Content (QBIC) and Content- Based
Visual Information Retrieval (QBVIR). It is a computer vision application which image
retrieval is relies on actual contents ofthe image. "Contenf' ofthe image can be color, shape,
texture or any other information that can be derived from the image itself CBIR is a
technology that invented to improve the most traditional method used in image retrieval,
which is text annotation. Text annotation also known as image tagging is a method to retrive
images from the database that based on descriptions, captions or key- words of the image.
This project paper also focuses on research and development activity that will be carried out.