Data management for multimedia retrieval2010

"This comprehensive textbook presents data structures and algorithms for storing, indexing, clustering, classifying, and accessing common multimedia data representations"--Provided by publisher.

"Multimedia data require specialized management techniques because the representations of color, time, semantic concepts, and other underlying information can be drastically different from one another. The user's subjective judgment can also have significant impact on what data or features are relevant in a given context. These factors affect both the performance of the retrieval algorithms and their effectiveness. This textbook on multimedia data management techniques offers a unified perspective on retrieval efficiency and effectiveness. It provides a comprehensive treatment, from basic to...