Feature Extraction Methods: A Review

Abstract Feature extraction is the main core in diagnosis, classification, clustering, recognition, and detection. Many researchers may by interesting in choosing suitable features that used in the applications. In this paper, the most important features methods are collected, and explained each one. The features in this paper are divided into four groups; Geometric features, Statistical features, Texture features, and Color features. It explains the methodology of each method, its equations, and application. In this paper, we made acomparison among them by using two types of image, one type for face images (163 images divided into 113 for training and 50 for testing) and the other for plant images(130 images divided into 100 for training and 30 for testing) to test the features in geometric and textures. Each type of image group shows that each type of images may be used suitable features may differ from other types.