Multimedia Information Retrieval. Theory and Techniques

✍ Scribed by Roberto Raieli (Auth.)

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Novel processing and searching tools for the management of new multimedia documents have developed. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) is an organic system made up of Text Retrieval (TR); Visual Retrieval (VR); Video Retrieval (VDR); and Audio Retrieval (AR) systems. So that each type of digital document may be analysed and searched by the elements of language appropriate to its nature, search criteria must be extended. Such an approach is known as the Content Based Information Retrieval (CBIR), and is the core of MIR. This novel content-based concept of information handling needs to be integrated with more traditional semantics. Multimedia Information Retrieval focuses on the tools of processing and searching applicable to the content-based management of new multimedia documents. Translated from Italian by Giles Smith, the book is divided into two parts. Part one discusses MIR and related theories, and puts forward new methodologies; part two reviews various experimental and operating MIR systems, and presents technical and practical conclusions.

• Gives a complete, organic picture of MIR and CBIR
• Proposes a novel conceptualisation around the ideas of Information Retrieval (IR) and digital document management in the context of Library and Information Science (LIS)
• Relevant for both library and information science and information technology specialists

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures and tables, Pages ix-xiii
Acknowledgments, Page xv
Main list of abbreviations, Page xvii
Preface to the English edition, Pages xix-xxvi
Preface, Pages xxvii-xxx
About the author, Page xxxi
Introduction, Pages 1-12
1 - A cultural and theoretical context for MIR theory, Pages 15-31
2 - Scientific principles of MIR, Pages 33-55
3 - Processing and indexing of digital multimedia documents, Pages 57-88
4 - MIR’s methodology in the context of LIS, Pages 89-132
5 - Definition of MIR methodology, Pages 133-171
6 - The current status of MIR systems, Pages 175-193
7 - Examples of the functions of the MIR system, Pages 195-242
8 - MIR techniques and technologies, Pages 243-275
9 - The integration of MIR modalities, Pages 277-301
Bibliography, Pages 303-333
Index, Pages 335-343