Multimedia information retrieval
By: Stefan Rüger
Series: Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services -- # 10
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA)
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
ISBN-13: 9781608450985; 9781608450978
Subjects: Multimedia systems; Information retrieval
Other titles: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Description: At its very core multimedia information retrieval means the process of searching for and finding multimedia documents; the corresponding research field is concerned with building the best possible multimedia search engines.The intriguing bit here is that the query itself can be amultimedia excerpt: For example,when you walk around in an unknown place and stumble across an interesting landmark, would it not be great if you could just take a picture with your mobile phone and send it to a service that finds a similar picture in a database and tells you more about the building - and about its significance for that matter?

This book goes further by examining the full matrix of a variety of query modes versus document types. How do you retrieve a music piece by humming? What if you want to find news video clips on forest fires using a still image? The text discusses underlying techniques and common approaches to facilitate multimedia search engines from metadata driven retrieval, via piggy-back text retrieval where automated processes create text surrogates for multimedia, automated image annotation and content-based retrieval. The latter is studied in great depth looking at features and distances, and how to effectively combine them for efficient retrieval, to a point where the readers have the ingredients and recipe in their hands for building their own multimedia search engines.

Supporting users in their resource discovery mission when hunting for multimedia material is not a technological indexing problem alone.We look at interactiveways of engaging with repositories through browsing and relevance feedback, roping in geographical context, and providing visual summaries for videos. The book concludes with an overview of state-of-the-art research projects in the area of multimedia information retrieval, which gives an indication of the research and development trends and, thereby, a glimpse of the future world.
Notes: Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on January 11, 2010).

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-155).

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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. What is multimedia information retrieval? : 1.1. Information retrieval; 1.2. Multimedia; 1.3. Multimedia information retrieval; 1.4. Challenges of automated multimedia indexing; 1.5. Summary; 1.6. Exercises; title: 2. Basic multimedia search technologies: 2.1. Metadata driven retrieval; 2.2. Piggy-back text retrieval; 2.3. Content-based retrieval; 2.4. Automated image annotation; 2.5. Fingerprinting; 2.6. Exercises; title: 3. Content-based retrieval in depth: 3.1. Content-based retrieval architecture; 3.2. Features; 3.3. Distances; 3.4. Feature and distance standardisation ;3.5. High-dimensional indexing; 3.6. Fusion of feature spaces and query results; 3.7. Exercises; title: 4. Added services: 4.1. Video summaries; 4.2. Paradigms in information visualization; 4.3. Visual search and relevance feedback; 4.4. Browsing; 4.5. Geo-temporal aspects of media; 4.6. Exercises; title: 5. Multimedia information retrieval research: 5.1. Multimedia representation and management; 5.2. Digital libraries; 5.3. Metadata and automated annotation; 5.4. User needs and evaluation; 5.5. Multimedia search and mining systems; 5.6. Browsing and presentation; 5.7. Imagination is the only limit; 5.8. Exercises; title: 6. Summary; title: Bibliography; title: Author's biography.