Abstract: In order to retrieve image effectively, contendedbased image retrieval technique comes into being. The color feature and texture feature are respectively studied. The color feature is demonstrated by the histogram. The texture feature is extracted by Gabor filters. On the basis of above contents, the article proposes a method for image retrieval using combined color feature and texture feature. The results of experiments show that the retrieval results obtained from combined features are better than the retrieval results obtained from single feature.

Key words: image retrieval, color feature, texture feature, feature extraction