Techniques to identify objects within an image and searching for similar objects in the database is not claiming a lot of progress, due to the limitations of the capabilities of the existing techniques and algorithms in image processing and computer vision to perform such task. In this paper, a new technique based on slicing the images to equally sub-areas, then applying the density slicing to the colour histogram of

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