Architecture and Design: Introduction – Architecture of content-based image and video retrieval – Designing an image retrieval system – Designing a video retrieval system. Feature extraction and similarity measure: Color – Texture – Shape – Spatial relationships – MPEG 7 features. Video Indexing and understanding- Query Language for multimedia search- Relevance feedback- Semantic based retrieval – Trademark image retrieval- Standards relevant to Content based image retrieval- Query Specification – Metadata description. Content based video Retrieval: Feature extraction – Semantics understanding -Summarization – Indexing and retrieval of video, Case studies and applications.