What is Field Programmable Gate Arrays

The aim of this chapter is to provide the reader with a Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system which incorporates AI through ant colony optimization and fuzzy logic. This method utilizes a two-stage fuzzy modified ant colony algorithm employing in parallel low-level features such as color, texture and spatial information which are extracted from the images themselves. The results prove the system to be more efficient compared to popular and contemporary methods such as the histogram intersection, joint histograms and the scalable color histogram of the MPEG-7 standard. However, due to the high computational burden of the AI methods the system is quite slow when implemented in software. Thus in order to speed up the whole process the reader is also provided with the hardware implementation analysis of the whole system. The increase in speed is phenomenal.