Abstract: While the methods of gray image segmentation keeping innovation, researches on color image segmentation have a marked development, and the gray image segmentation provides research base for color image segmentation. At present, the problem of color image segmentation has become a fundamental one and had significant impact on both new pattern recognition algorithms and applications. In order to make the research in this field has a more comprehensive understanding, In this paper, several typical approaches are presented and discussed, and expected to seek an algorithm with better real-time and robustness. algorithm combining both SOFM and FCM clustering is selected to be better in robustness, and reduce the hassle of looking for a suitable feature space.