| Image Databases & Multi-Media Search Contributor(s): Jain, Ramesh (Editor), Smeulders, Arnold W. M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9810233272 ISBN-13: 9789810233273 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $112.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Imaging Systems - Computers | Interactive & Multimedia - Computers | Computer Science |
| Dewey: 621.367 |
| LCCN: 98203265 |
| Series: Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.21" W x 8.76" (1.28 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The World Wide Web and the Internet are signs that 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 AltaVista are already accepted tools for textual information, image 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. |