This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First IAPR International Workshop on Multimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval, MINAR'98, held in Hong Kong, China, in August 1998.
The volume presents 18 revised papers carefully reviewed and selected by the program committee for inclusion in the book. Also included are two invited presentations. Among the topics covered are invariant properties, color or geometric, of images for robust image and video retrieval in compressed domain, pictorial query languages, video segmentation by content, and efficient storage organization for multimedia data.

Inhalt
Presence technology: Accessing live multimedia information systems.- Content-based image database retrieval using variances of gray level spatial dependencies.- Content-based access of VRML libraries.- Web-WISE: compressed image retrieval over the web.- Embodying semiotic cues in video retrieval.- Supporting video applications through 4DIS temporal framework 4DIS temporal framework.- Video sequence similarity matching.- Image retrieval by multi-scale illumination invariant Indexing.- Finding pictures in context.- Image enhancement and improvement of both color and brightness contrast based on lateral inhibition method.- An area-based shape representation for affine invariant content-based retrieval.- A spatial query language for multiple data sources based on ?-operator sequences.- Video segmentation using color difference histogram.- A new scene breakpoint detection algorithm using slice of video stream.- A low latency hierarchical storage organization for multimedia data retrieval.-Exploiting image indexing techniques in DCT domain.- Content-based image indexing and retrieval in an image database for technical domains.- The PRIME information retrieval system applied on a medical corpus.- Envelope parameter calculation of similarity indexing structure.- Intra-block max-min algorithm for embedding robust digital watermark into images.