A Study on Image Mining; Its Importance and Challenges

Image mining is an interdisciplinary field that is based on specialties such as machine vision, image processing, image retrieval, data mining, machine learning, databases and artificial intelligence. Although many studies have been conducted in each of these areas, research on image mining and emerging issues is in its infancy. For instance, data mining techniques can not automatically extract useful information from the large amount of data set like images. In this paper, by presenting the unique features of image mining, we discussed about the general procedure of the analysis and the main techniques of image analysis. Finally we explored different image mining systems, and knowledge extraction from images to achieve progress and development in this area.