This paper presents an illumination invariant color centroid representation for image indexing. The proposed method transforms 3-D color space to a 2-D color centroid representation which provides compact color information representation and is less sensitive to illumination variation. Based on color constancy model, the proposed color centroid representation is invariant with respect to illumination variation. Experimental results show robust image indexing using the new color centroid model on objects that are illuminated under different illumination conditions.