| View Larger Image | Visual Information Retrieval (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) | Paperbackby Alberto del Bimbo (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Morgan Kaufmann | | Edition: | 1stst Edition | | Page Count: | 270 Pages | | Publication Date: | June 17, 1999 | | Sales Rank: | 2,054,811nd |
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Product Description
The increasing use of multimedia in computer applications has increased the relevance of visual databases. These visual databases require new methods for archiving and retrieving information, as traditional approaches used previously to index textual data are no longer appropriate. Visual Information Retrieval concentrates on solutions for representation, indexing, and querying by content of visual information, reviewing the main approaches and techniques available. Single image indexing, querying and retrieval by content, video segmentation, annotation, and content-based indexing are all examined. The book will appeal to practitioners and graduates/researchers involved in visual database issues in multimedia and image processing. |
Amazon.com Review
Visual Information Retrieval, written by the head of the Systems and Information Department at the University of Florence in Italy, is a must-have for anyone developing systems for cataloging, searching, and retrieving visual-based data. A growing percentage of stored computer information is visual media, whether it's still images or video clips. This kind of data has a very different format and structure than text-based data, and cataloging, sorting, and searching non-text-based data presents a tremendous challenge to the contemporary database programmer. This is not a book for the casual programmer. It offers high-level suggestions on how to build the architecture for such systems, key theories on how to represent this kind of visual content, how to build similarity models, and indexing methods. It continues with examples of how to index and catalog still images based on color, texture, shape, and spatial relationship similarity. Chapter 6 details the problems and current solutions for content-based video retrieval. Detecting sharp transitions, how to analyze compressed and uncompressed streams, and gradual transition detection are just a few of the problems presented. The solutions presented are practical and fascinating. Visual Information Retrieval is a clearly written, although sometimes dense, handbook. The author uses a generous amount of examples of mathematical formulas, illustrations, and color plates. Clearly not a book for every database programmer--but a mandatory reference book for anyone building visual retrieval systems. --Mike Caputo |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 5 reviews)
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Outdated by A Jain (USA)  1 Stars
December 04, 2005
The field of visual information retrieval has changed remarkably in the past 6 years since this book came out. Even this book when it appeared was somewhat lightweight. I could only recommend this book to computational systems historians, not to any students or researchers.
When will there be a real textbook for this important area?
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Good travel by the whole field of the VIR. Many References. by Felix Rodriguez Rodriguez (Spain)  4 Stars
May 27, 2003
Es un buen recorrido por el estado del arte (antes de 2000) en cuanto al VIR. Recomendado para iniciarte y sobre todo para estudiantes de ingeniería informática que quieran adentrarse en la recuperación de información multimedia. Para los estudiantes de doctorado es excelente porque para mi lo mejor es la ingesta cantidad de referencias bibliográficas y documentales que contiene cada capítulo.
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Good Introduction to VIR by John Sinclair (London, UK) 4 Stars
July 22, 2002
There are only two books which cover theprinciples of this area. Other books suchas conference proceedings require the userto already be an expert.The other book by Prof. Lew is best at coveringthe state of the art and is appropriate forthe graduate student level.Prof. Del Bimbo's book gives a better introduction tothe subject and is most appropriate for theundergraduate level.- John
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Guide for researchers in VIR 4 Stars
June 16, 2000
This book is intended for graduate students. Particularly, researchers trying to develop VIRS. The book provides many good references for further reading. I hope that in the future, book like this will be in large amount, each explaining different/ specific area in depth. Basically, you want to get several ideas in developing your system with the most updated information. I`m quite satisfy for the time being. This book is definitely worth to buy!
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A good reference book for visual information retrieval by Alexei Machado (Brazil) 4 Stars
April 13, 2000
The book is an excelent source of updated references in the field of visual information retrieval. It covers important issues such as retrieving images by color, texture and shape information, among others. It would be an outstanding work if the technical information were more detailed, including algorithms. Nevertheless, it describes the most significant software for the problem and provides a complete list of references for further reading.
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