Image Databases And Multi-media Search (Hardcover)

Hardcover. The World Wide Web and the Internet are signs things will be very different in the future. And what is so striking about this computer-age future is that it comes incredibly fast and is incredibly overwhelming. Anyone who has surfed the Web has exclaimed at one point or another that there is so much information available, so much to search and so much to keep up with.Where Lycos and Alta Vista are already accepted tools for textual information, image databases and multimedia 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. Volume 8 in the SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING series containing the proceedings of an Amsterdam workshop where progress in the field of image and multimedia search engines was discussed. Topics include computational methods of searching for pictures, storage and indexing of objects in a database and accessing pictorial information. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.