Multimedia Information Retrieval

This volume addresses the future need for sophisticated search techniques that will be required to find relevant information in large digital data repositories, such as digital libraries and other multimedia databases. Because of the dramatically increasing amount of multimedia data available, there is a growing need for new search techniques that provide not only fewer bits, but also the most relevant bits, to those searching for multimedia digital data. This book seeks to bridge the gap between classic ranking of text documents and modern information retrieval where composite multimedia documents are searched for relevant information.