Image Retrieval: Techniques, Challenge, and Trend

This paper attempts to discuss the evolution of the retrieval techniques focusing on development, challenges and trends of the image retrieval. It highlights both the already addressed and outstanding issues. The explosive growth of image data leads to the need of research and development of Image Retrieval. However, Image retrieval researches are moving from keyword, to low level features and to semantic features. Drive towards semantic features is due to the problem of the keywords which can be very subjective and time consuming while low level features cannot always describe high level concepts in the users- mind.

Authors:

• Hui Hui Wang
• Dzulkifli Mohamad
• N.A Ismail

Keywords:

• content based image retrieval
• keyword based imageretrieval
• semantic gap
• semantic image retrieval.

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