Image Databases and Multi-Media Search
Arnold W. M. Smeulders, Ramesh Chandra Jain · Series on software engineering and knowledge engineering · 1998
From the Publisher: Where Lycos and AltaVista are already accepted tools for textual information, image databases and multi-media search engines are the natural answers in the quest for pictorial information. This book provides a state-of-the-art description of that field. It contains the proceedings of a valuable workshop in Amsterdam, where people gathered to discuss the progress in the field. The topics cover computational methods of searching for pictures, the powerful pictorial clues in the recognition of objects, storage and indexing of objects in a database, and, ways to access the requested pictorial information.