Article history: Nowadays, working on digital images is gaining much popularity in multimedia systems, due to the rapid increase in the utilization of large image databases. Thus, the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) method has become the most valuable method for these databases. This study mainly focuses on content-based image retrieval; which uses image features like color, shape, texture, etc. by searching the user query image from a large image database based on user request. CBIR is

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... most widely used technique as its searching capability is faster than the other traditional methods, and it works well in retrieving images automatically. It is also a big alternative approach to traditional methods. The CBIR techniques are used in many applications like surveillance detection, crime avoidance, fingerprint identification, E-library, medical, historical monument and biodiversity information systems, and many more. A total of 38 CBIR articles were comparatively analyzed.