Description: This handbook presents a thorough overview in 45 chapters from more than 100 renowned experts in the field. It provides the tools to help overcome the problems of video storage, cataloging, and retrieval by exploring content standardization and other content classification and analysis methods. The challenge of these complex problems make this book a must-have for video database practitioners in the fields of image and video processing, computer vision, multimedia systems, data mining, and many other diverse disciplines. Topics include video segmentation and summarization, archiving and retrieval, and modeling and representation.
