Multimedia retrieval

Henk Blanken, Ling Feng, Maurice van Keulen, Henk Ernst Blok (auth.), Henk M. Blanken, Henk Ernst Blok, Ling Feng, Arjen P. de Vries (eds.)3540728945, 978-3-642-09199-5, 978-3-540-72894-8, 978-3-540-72895-5

Retrieval of multimedia data is different from retrieval of structured data. A key problem in multimedia databases is search, and the proposed solutions to the problem of multimedia information retrieval span a rather wide spectrum of topics outside the traditional database area, ranging from information retrieval and human–computer interaction to computer vision and pattern recognition.

Based on more than 10 years of teaching experience, Blanken and his coeditors have assembled all the topics that should be covered in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on multimedia retrieval and multimedia databases. The single chapters of this textbook explain the general architecture of multimedia information retrieval systems; various metadata languages like Dublin Core, RDF, or MPEG; pattern recognition through Markov models, unsupervised learning, and pattern clustering; various indexing approaches to audio and video streams; interaction and control; the protection of content and user privacy; and search effectiveness and efficiency. The authors emphasize high-level features and show how these features are used in mathematical models to support the retrieval process. For each chapter, there’s detail on further reading, and additional exercises and teaching material is available online.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-XVIII
Introduction….Pages 1-22
Languages for Metadata….Pages 23-51
Pattern Recognition for Multimedia Content Analysis….Pages 53-95
Searching for Text Documents….Pages 97-124
Image Processing….Pages 125-175
Generative Probabilistic Models….Pages 177-198
Speech Indexing….Pages 199-224
Semantic Video Indexing….Pages 225-249
A Spatio-Temporal and a Probabilistic Approach for Video Retrieval….Pages 251-269
Multimodal Content-based Video Retrieval….Pages 271-294
Interaction….Pages 295-320
Digital Rights Management….Pages 321-345
Evaluation of Multimedia Retrieval Systems….Pages 347-366
Back Matter….Pages 367-372