Hoffbauer

In this paper we present an image retrieval system based on Gabor texturefeatures, steganography, and mobile agents.. By employing the informationhiding technique, the image attributes can be hidden in an image withoutdegrading the image quality. Thus the image retrieval process becomes simple.Java based mobile agents manage the query phase of the system. Based on thesimulation results, the proposed system not only shows the efficiency in hidingthe attributes but also provides other advantages such as: (1) fasttransmission of the retrieval image to the receiver, (2) searching made easy.