Invention of digital technology has lead to increase in the number of images that can be stored in digital format. So searching and retrieving images in large image databases has become more challenging. From the last few years, Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) gained increasing attention from researcher. CBIR is a system which uses visual features of image to search user required image from large image database and user's requests in the form of a query image. Important features of images

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... re colour, texture and shape which give detailed information about the image. CBIR techniques using different feature extraction techniques are discussed in this paper.