In various application domains such as education, crime prevention, commerce, and biomedicine, the volume of digital data is increasing rapidly. The problem appears when retrieving the information from the storage media. Content-based image retrieval systems aim to retrieve images from large image databases similar to the query image based on the similarity between image features. This book presents a CBIR system that uses the color feature as a visual feature to represent the images. Images are selected from the WANG database that is widely used for CBIR performance evaluation. Ranklet...

A new algorithm to recognize the numbers from "one" to "ten" in the arabic language in this thesis. Analyzing a series of images for the speaker is the backboon of the thesis, detecting the first frame, the end frame, the motion vectore, and finally extracting the moment features from the motion vectore. A database consist of ten speakers are used in testing the results, every speaker pronounce the ten words fifteen times. Three recognition methods are used, K-mean, Fuzzy_kmean, and K-NN. The database is devided into two parts, the first part is to test which recognition method is the best...