Everything you ever wanted to know about multimedia retrieval and management. This comprehensive book offers a full picture of the cutting-edge technologies necessary for a profound introduction to the field. Leading experts also cover a broad range of practical applications.

Inhalt

1 Fundamentals of content-based image retrieval.- 2 Content-based video analysis, retrieval and browsing.- 3 Relevance feedback in content-based image retrieval.- 4 Video analysis and summarization at structural and semantic levels.- 5 Content-based retrieval for digital audio and music.- 6 MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Standard.- 7 Multimedia authentication and watermarking.- 8 Indexing and retrieving high dimensional visual features.- 9 A semantic data modeling mechanism for a multimedia database.- 10 Feature-based retrieval in visual database systems.- 11 Digital library.- 12 Scalable storage for digital libraries.- 13 Object repositories for digital libraries.- 14 Information discovery on the world-wide-web.- 15 Cooperative multimedia information systems.- 16 PACS, image management and imaging informatics.- 17 Content-based retrieval for medical data.- 18 Biometrics feature retrieval using palmprint images.- 19 Search of human faces from a face database.- 20 Data management for live plant identification.- 21 Fast startup and interactive retrievals of broadcast videos.