基于内容的图像检索（Content-based Image Retrieval，简称CBIR）技术被提出。这一技术的出现提高了图像检索的准确性，它通过提取图像本身的内在客观特征如颜色、纹理、形状、布局等关系，并比较这些视觉特征间的相似性，自动搜索出符合用户要求的图像。-Content-based image retrieval (Content-based Image Retrieval, referred to as CBIR) techniques have been proposed. The emergence of this technology to improve the accuracy of the image retrieval, intrinsic objective characteristics by extracting an image itself such as color, texture, shape, layout relations, and compare the similarity between the visual characteristics, automatically searched out in accordance with the user requirements images.