Video search engines enable users to take advantage of constantly growing video resources like, for example, video on demand, Internet television and YouTube, for a wide variety of applications including entertainment, education and communications. David Gibbon and Zhu Liu describe the current state of video search engine technology and inform us about opportunities to contribute to thedevelopment of this field. Their book has a practical emphasis with the goal of bringing readers up to date on the state of the art in multimedia search technologies and systems. It explains the overall process of video content acquisition, indexing and retrieval with browsing, it provides overviews of constituent technologies such as information retrieval, Internet video systems, videoand multimedia processing to extract index data, and it gives examples of research prototypes and existing commercial systems and describes their features.Readers will understand the basics of the technologies used in today’s video search engines Learn which video indexing techniques are appropriate for giventypes of video material, and be able to decide on suitable methods for new video content types Be able to differentiate between proven, practical techniques and those that are speculative, under development, or of narrow applicability INDICE: 1) Video Search - 2) Video Data Sources and Applications - 3) Internet Video - 4) Video Search Engine Systems - 5) Media Processing - 6) Video Processing - 7) Audio Processing - 8) Text Processing - 9) Multimodal Processing - 10) Research Systems - 11) Current Trends in Video Search.- Glossary, References.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-79336-6
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 255
- Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés