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A new technique to improve the performance of color based image retrieval is proposed. The proposed technique consists of two major phases. In the first phase, the SOM - self organizing map - is used to cluster images database based on some primitive features of the image. The result obtained through the first phase is used as a filtered set of images to be fed into the second phase which relies on...