Color moments have significant applications in image retrieval. They can be used in order to compare how similar two images are. This is a relatively new approach to color indexing. The greatest advantage of using color moments comes from the fact that there is no need to store the complete color distribution.M. Stricker and M. Orengo. "Similarity of Color Images". In SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases III, volume 2420, pp. 381-392, Feb. 1995. This greatly speeds up image retrieval since there are less features to compare. In addition, the first three color moments have the same units, which allows for comparison between them.V. Chitkara, M.A. Nascimento, and C. Mastaller. "Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Binary Signatures". In Technical Report TR-00-18, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, 2000
