Ebook: Multimedia Databases and Image Communication: Second International Workshop, MDIC 2001 Amalfi, Italy, September 17–18, 2001 Proceedings
- Genre: Education // International Conferences and Symposiums
- Tags: Multimedia Information Systems, Information Storage and Retrieval, Coding and Information Theory, Computer Communication Networks, Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Document Preparation and Text Processing
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2184
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Multimedia technologies are rapidly attracting more and more interest every day. The Internet as seen from the end user is one of the reasons for this phenomenon, but not the only one. Video on Demand is one of the buzzwords today, but its real availability to the general public is yet to come. Content providers – such as publishers, broadcasting companies, and audio/video production ?rms – must be able to archive and index their productions for later retrieval. This is a formidable task, even more so when the material to be sorted encompasses many di?erent types of several media and covers a time span of several years. In order for such a vast amount of data to be easily available, existing database design models and indexing methodologies have to be improved and re?ned. In addition, new techniques especially tailored to the various types of multimedia must be devised and evaluated. For archiving and trasmission, data compression is another issue that needs to be addressed. In many cases, it has been found that compression and indexing can be successfully integrated, since compressing the data by ?ltering out irrelevancy implies some degree of und- standing of the content structure.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Image Communication, MDIC 2001, held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2001. The 16 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organised in topical sections on image and visual computing applications, multimedia technology, image and visual information querying and browsing, and video indexing and communication.