I.INTRODUCTIONText-basedsearchprovidesresultswithsemanticsimilarity,whilecontent-basedsearchprovidesresultswithvisualsimilarity.Duetotheindependencebetweentheseapproaches,islikelythattheircombinationcouldimprovetheperformanceofasearchsystembybenefitingofbothapproaches.Inthepresentwork,wepresentanimageretrievalsystembasedonacombinedsearchoftextandcontent.II.SYSTEMOVERVIEWThepresentimagesearchsystemhasbeenimplementedusingJava.,C++,andPostgreSQL.ThesetofimageobjectweretakenfromFlickrwebsiteusingtheSAPIRcollection[].Intheofflinephase,theimagesaredownloadedfromFlickrusingtheURLprovidedbytheSAPIRcollection.Thecontent-baseddescriptorsextractedfromtheimageswere:ColorHistogramusingRGBcolorspace(advector),GaborWavelet(advector),EfficientColorDescriptor(ECD)usingRGBcolorspace(advector),ECDusingHSVcolorspace(advector),andEdgeLocal(advector).TheColorHistogramandGaborWaveletdescriptorswereimplementedinC++withtheOpenCVlibrary,andtheotheroneswereimplemente