Multimedia Database Retrieval: A Human-Centered Approach

✍ Scribed by Paisarn Muneesawang

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 270
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Multimedia Database Retrieval: A Human-Centered Approach presents the latest development in user-centered methods and the state-of-the-art in visual media retrieval.  It includes discussion on perceptually inspired non-linear paradigm in user-controlled interactive retrieval (UCIR) systems. It also features a coherent approach which focuses on specific topics within content/concept-based retrievals via audio-visual information modeling of multimedia.

Highlights include:

* Exploring an adaptive machine that can learn from its environment

* Optimizing the learning system by incorporating self-organizing adaptation into the retrieval process

* Demonstrating state-of-the-art applications within small, medium, and large databases

The authors also include applications related to Digital Asset Management (DAM), Computer Aided Referral (CAR) System, Geographical Database Retrieval, retrieval of Art Documents, and Films and Video Retrieval.

Multimedia Database Retrieval: A Human-Centered Approach presents the fundamental and advanced aspects of these topics, as well as the philosophical directions in the field.  The methods detailed in this book possess broad applications which will advance the technology in this fast developing topical area.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Front......Page 2
Preface......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
1 Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Opportunities and Challenges......Page 14
Part I - Layered Communication Approaches......Page 17
2 Physical Layer......Page 18
3 Data Link Layer......Page 27
4 Network Layer......Page 55
5 Transport and Middleware Layers......Page 75
6 Application Layer......Page 86
Part II - Cross-Layer Approaches......Page 96
7 Cross-Layer Design......Page 97
8 Cross-Layer Architectures......Page 108
9 Applied Cross-Layer Approaches......Page 118
Part III - Case Studies......Page 162
10 Optimization of an RF Sensor Network......Page 163
11 UWB Ad Hoc Network......Page 195
12 Acoustic Underwater Sensor Network......Page 223
13 Concluding Remarks and Future Directions......Page 246
A Extended Cost Function......Page 248
References......Page 251
Index......Page 265