Web-Scale Multimedia Data Management: Challenges and Remedies
Edward Yi Chang · 2007
Text-based search engines have been flourishing. However, despite increasing needs of tools for organizing and searching imagery and video content, we have not seen a successful deployment of a Web-scale multimedia search engine. This talk (and paper) analyzes main technical challenges of such a deployment, and presents remedies in three areas: feature extraction, similarity characterization, and scalability.