Shadow detection and removal is an important task when dealing with colour outdoor images. Shadows are generated by a local and relative absence of light. Shadows are, first of all, a local decrease in the amount of light that reaches a surface.

CBIR-Two novel contributions to Content Based Image Retrieval are presented and discussed. The fi rst is a search engine for font recognition. The intended usage is the search in very large font databases. The input to the search engine is a

Two novel contributions to Content Based Image Retrieval are presented and discussed. The fi rst is a search engine for font recognition. The intended usage is the search in very large font databases. The input to the search engine is an i