CHORUS Deliverable 2.1: State of the Art on Multimedia Search Engines
Nozha Boujemaa, Ramón Compañó, Christoph Dosch, Joost Geurts, Ioannis Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Jussi Karlgren, P. F. King, Joachim Köhler, Jean-Yves Le Moine, Robert Ortgies, Jean-Charles Point, Boris Rotenberg, Åsa Rudström, Nicu Sebe · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2007
Based on the information provided by European projects and national initiatives related to multimedia search as well as domains experts that participated in the CHORUS Think-thanks and workshops, this document reports on the state of the art related to multimedia content search from, a technical, and socio-economic perspective. The technical perspective includes an up to date view on content based indexing and retrieval technologies, multimedia search in the context of mobile devices and peer-to-peer networks, and an overview of current evaluation and benchmark inititiatives to measure the performance of multimedia search engines. From a socio-economic perspective we inventorize the impact and legal consequences of these technical advances and point out future directions of research.