Multimedia Systems and Content-Based Image Retrieval

Multimedia systems and content-based image retrieval are very important areas of research in computer technology. Numerous research works are being done in these fields at present. These two areas are changing our life-styles because they together cover creation, maintenance, accessing and retrieval of video, audio, image, textual and graphic data. But still several important issues in these areas remain unresolved and further research works are needed to be done for better techniques and applications. Multimedia Systems and Content-Based Image Retrieval addresses these unresolved issues and highlights current research.

Multimedia systems and content-based image retrieval are very important areas of research in computer technology. Numerous research works are being done in these fields at present. These two areas are changing our life-styles because they together cover creation, maintenance, accessing and retrieval of video, audio, image, textual and graphic data. But still several important issues in these areas remain unresolved and further research works need to be done for better techniques and applications. Multimedia Systems and Content-Based Image Retrieval addresses these unresolved issues and highlights current research.

Sagarmay Deb received his Master of Business Administration from Long Island University, New York, USA. Currently he is with The University of Southern Queensland, Australia and is involved as an International consultant and researcher in Information Technology. His research interests are multimedia databases, content-based image retrieval, various indexing techniques and electronic commerce and has contributed to several books and journals on multimedia databases. Marquis Who's Who, a well-known publisher of biographies of people of notable achievements, has selected his biography for publication.