A survey on Content Based Image Retrieval in Cloud Environment with Privacy Preservation & Copy Deterrence

Importance of images in day to day life increased tremendously. Therefore Content Based Image Retrieval studied extensively. Cloud computing offers on demand services to cloud user therefore many organizations prefer to use cloud for data storage. To protect images with sensitive or private information needs to be encrypted before being outsourced to cloud. However, this causes difficulties in image retrieval and management. The purpose of this study is to provide privacy preservation and copy deterrence Content Based Image Retrieval method using Lucene Indexing. Keywords: CBIR, Lucene Indexing, Copy Deterrence.