Multimedia Database Retrieval: Technology And Applications (multimedia Systems And Applications)

This book explores multimedia applications that emerged from computer vision and machine learning technologies. These state-of-the-art applications include MPEG-7, interactive multimedia retrieval, multimodal fusion, annotation, and database re-ranking. The application-oriented approach maximizes reader understanding of this complex field. Established researchers explain the latest developments in multimedia database technology and offer a glimpse of future technologies. The authors emphasize the crucial role of innovation, inspiring users to develop new applications in multimedia technologies such as mobile media, large scale image and video databases, news video and film, forensic image databases and gesture databases. With a strong focus on industrial applications along with an overview of research topics, Multimedia Database Retrieval: Technology and Applications is an indispensable guide for computer scientists, engineers and practitioners involved in the development and use of multimedia systems. It also serves as a secondary text or reference for advanced-level students interested in multimedia technologies. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-15 Kernel-Based Adaptive Image Retrieval Methods....Pages 17-58 Self-adaptation in Image and Video Retrieval....Pages 59-99 Interactive Mobile Visual Search and Recommendation at Internet Scale....Pages 101-130 Mobile Landmark Recognition....Pages 131-145 Image Retrieval from a Forensic Cartridge Case Database....Pages 147-167 Indexing, Object Segmentation, and Event Detection in News and Sports Videos....Pages 169-211 Adaptive Retrieval in a P2P Cloud Datacenter....Pages 213-246 Scalable Video Genre Classification and Event Detection....Pages 247-278 Audio-Visual Fusion for Film Database Retrieval and Classification....Pages 279-303 Motion Database Retrieval with Application to Gesture Recognition in a Virtual Reality Dance Training System....Pages 305-333 Back Matter....Pages 335-350