Perspectives on Content-Based Multimedia Systems

• Main Authors: Wu, Jian Kang (Author), Kankanhalli, Mohan S. (Author), Lim, Joo-Hwee (Author), Hong, Dezhong (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 9
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Information storage and retrieval.; Multimedia information systems.; Computer Science.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Multimedia Information Systems.

Multimedia data comprising of images, audio and video is becoming increasingly common. The decreasing costs of consumer electronic devices such as digital cameras and digital camcorders, along with the ease of transportation facilitated by the Internet, has lead to a phenomenal rise in the amount of...

Table of Contents:

• Formalism of Content-based Multimedia Systems
• Color Feature Extraction
• Texture Feature Extraction
• Video Processing
• Object Segmentation
• Human Face Detection
• Visual Keywords
• Fuzzy Retrieval
• Face Retrieval
• System for Trademark Archival and Retrieval
• Digital Home Photo Album
• Evaluation of Content-based Retrieval.