INTRODUCTION

In this decade, there is a rapid growth in the use of digital media such as images, video and audio. As the use of digital media increases, effective retrieval and management techniques become more important. Such techniques are required to facilitate the effective searching and browsing of large multimedia databases. In order to respond to this need, researchers have tried extending Information Retrieval (IR) techniques used in text retrieval to the area of image retrieval. The purpose of an image database is to store and retrieve an image or image sequences that are relevant to a query. There are a variety of domains such as information retrieval, computer graphics, database management and user behaviour which have evolved separately but are interrelated and provide a valuable contribution to this research subject. As more and more visual information is available in digital archives, the need for effective image retrieval has become clear. In image retrieval research, researchers are moving from keyword based, to content based then towards semantic based image retrieval and the main problem encountered in the content based image retrieval research is the semantic gap between the low-level features and high-level semantics in the images. Majority of images in real world are stored as raster images. Image can be viewed as vector of pixels; every pixel is described by its s. The vector of pixel represents some kind of keywords in image. But human observer extracts from the image important features that define semantics of image for him. The man doesnt think about pixels but about persons or objects on image. So user needs a technique to extract the features and that is resistant to minor changes of images e.g. amount of light, contrast and moves of objects on the images. Direct usage of keyword based systems leads to results that are sensitive to small change of any keyword.

MOVITATION The project is motivated by the factor that Google image search is lagging in accuracy and thus there is more scope for improvisation that can be made in the system. PROBLEM STATEMENT The visual content retrieval should and content predicting have more semantic gap and the end user satisfaction need to be improved by reducing this semantic gap by developing a system with improved accuracy. OBJECTIVE The objective is to provide a semantic search in a composite approach with improved accuracy and speed. The varied approach guarantees an efficient system that produces more appropriate results.

OLD ARCHITECTURE

REFINED ARCHITECTURE
IMAGE QUERY FEATURE EXTRACTION CONTENT QUERY COLOR QUERY

BUSINESS LOGIC LAYER

QUERY PROCESSING

QUERY CONVERSION

QUERY

DATA ACCESS LAYER

MACHINE LEARNING

Pattern Matching
RETRIEVE MATCHING IMAGES

IMAGE DATA SET

PRESENTATION LAYER