The amount of audiovisual information available in digital format has grown exponentially in
recent years. Gigabytes of new images, audio and video clips are generated and stored …

Images and video play a crucial role in visual information systems and multimedia. There is
an extraordinary number of applications of such systems in entertainment, business, art …

We have developed a CO Ntent-based Image and Video Access System(CO NIVAS). The
system consists of a collection of tools to help users retrieve still images and videos from …

Storage and retrieval of multimedia has become a requirement for many contemporary
information systems. These systems need to provide browsing, querying, navigation, and …

The growth in available online video material over the Internet is generally combined with
user‐assigned tags or content description, which is the mechanism by which we then access …

In the commercial use of picture collections, a heavy dependency continues to be exhibited
on a concept-based image retrieval paradigm in which the query is verbalised by the client …

Images are being generated at an ever-increasing rate by sources such as defence and
civilian satellites, military reconnaissance and surveillance flights, fingerprinting and mug …

This article provides a framework to describe and compare content-based image retrieval
systems. Sixteen contemporary systems are described in detail, in terms of the following …

ABSTRACT Content Based Video Retrieval (CBVR) has been increasingly used to describe
the process of retrieving desired videos from a large collection on the basis of features that …

Abstract The field of Content-Based Visual Information Retrieval (CBVIR) has experienced
tremendous growth in the recent years and many research groups are currently working on …