This document discusses techniques for extracting useful information from images, including image classification, feature extraction, face detection and recognition, and image retrieval. It provides details on supervised classification and various tree structures used for indexing images. Face recognition algorithms extract facial features and compare them to databases to identify matches. The results of searching six sample images of different types (face, content, feature) are shown, with search times ranging from 3.5 to 7 seconds. Indexing techniques for multimedia databases are discussed to efficiently retrieve different data types like text, audio and video.