Video Data Management and Information Retrieval

Video Data Management and Information Retrieval combines the two important areas of research within computer technology and presents them in comprehensive, easy to understand manner. Video Data Management and Information Retrieval is ideal for graduates and under-graduates, as well as researchers working in either video data management or information retrieval. It takes an in depth look at many relevant topics within both video data management and information retrieval. In addition to dissecting those issues, the book also provides a "big picture" view of each topic. This shows the relevance of each issue and how those areas affect every one today.

Deb (information technology, U. of Southern Queensland) and contributors describe their work in combining these two areas of research, and propose new areas of research into applications and techniques. They begin by examining how the two fields complement each other, then proceed to describe their application to video data storage and networking, to video data security, data synchronization, boundary detection, and finally to information retrieval. Specific topics include high-performance data recording for streaming media, wearable devices that augment human memory, very low bit-rate video coding, video biometrics, soft-decision techniques, news video indexing and captioning, video abstraction, and video summarization based on human face detection and recognition. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR