Multimedia access and retrieval (panel session)
Gwendal Auffret, Jonathan T. Foote, Chung-Shen Li, Behzad Shahraray, Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood, HongJiang Zhang · 1999
Several years have passed since the research topic of content based multimedia retrieval emerged.We have witnessed the burgeoning research activities into a plenitude of new indexing, retrieval, and filtering tools for images, video, audio, music, graphics, and their combinations with text-based information.Exciting research opportunities arise when integrating knowledge from multiple disciplines, such as media content processing, database, information retrieval, and machine user interface.In the commercial domain, we have also witnessed several impressive efforts moving technologies into practical arenas.This panel includes experts from industry, research labs, and academia.The panel will assess the state of the art and articulate the important future directions in the general field of multimedia access and retrieval.