Content Based Image Retrieval for Trademark Registration: A Survey

Trade practices are becoming very important for products and services in the form of brands. For the global recognition, companies are competing for establishing the brand name in the market. Every company wants to register it’s unique trademark for brad name. As a result trademark are playing very important role now a days. Trademark registration and its evaluation for distinctiveness is thus becoming very tedious job for registration offices. Millions of trademarks already registered and millions of applications filed for trademarks registration are aggravating the problem of issuing the trademark certificates. Trademark Image Registration is one of the important application area of Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR).Trademark image registration, where a new candidate mark is compared with existing marks to ensure that there is no risk of confusion, has long been recognized as a prime application area of CBIR.. This article covers the various algorithms designed for trademark image retrieval and their results.