In the 17 years since the first edition of Fundamentals of Multimedia, the field and
applications of multimedia have flourished and are undergoing evermore rapid growth and …

In many areas of commerce, government, academia, and hospitals, large collections of
digital images are being created. Many of these collections are the product of digitizing …

The need for content-based access to image and video information from media archives has
captured the attention of researchers in recent years. Research efforts have led to the …

Mining Multimedia Data University of Alberta Multimedia Outline Page 1 Mining Multimedia Data
Osmar R. Zaïane University of Alberta SBBD’2000 - Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil SBBD’2000 …

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 …

We have designed and implemented an experimental CBIR system that uses a texture co-
occurrence matrix. Fuzzy index of major colours are also used as colour feature to improve …

Despite the overwhelming amounts of multimedia data recently generated and the
significance of such data, very few people have systematically investigated multimedia data …

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 …

We present a novel Content Based Video Retrieval (CBVR) system, driven by free-hand
sketch queries depicting both objects and their movement (via dynamic cues; streak-lines …

To support effective multimedia information retrieval, video annotation has become an
important topic in video content analysis. Existing video annotation methods put the focus on …