  In this paper we present an image retrieval system based on Gabor texture
features, steganography, and mobile agents.. By employing the information
hiding technique, the image attributes can be hidden in an image without
degrading the image quality. Thus the image retrieval process becomes simple.
Java based mobile agents manage the query phase of the system. Based on the
simulation results, the proposed system not only shows the efficiency in hiding
the attributes but also provides other advantages such as: (1) fast
transmission of the retrieval image to the receiver, (2) searching made easy.
