Abstract: In recent decade, image mining is an emerging and challenging research field which is one of utmost front line researching orientations for database and information decision-making field internationally. This paper firstly studied the characteristics of image mining, and proposed some of them differentiating from the traditional data mining. And then, it analyzed the general process and the main modeling, and discussed the main technology of image mining. On this basis some application in the above area of study were analyzed and discussed. Finally, the disadvantages and development trend of image mining were presented.

Key words: Image mining, Modeling, Characteristics, Information