Full Description
The digital acquisition of information - known as Information Retrieval - has gained enormous importance in recent decades. Due to modern technologies and the spread of multimedia content, the focus is shifting more and more toward Multimedia Information Retrieval (MMIR). This well-founded and comprehensive textbook conveys the fundamentals and formal concepts of MMIR and connects them in a practical way with current developments from research and technology. Both the classical models of MMIR and modern, AI-based methods are presented. The book is aimed at computer science students as well as teachers and professionals in the field of software development who deal with topics such as multimedia, information processing, or user interaction.
The Content
Information and knowledge
Features and feature representation
Information Retrieval
Enterprise concepts of Information Retrieval
Evaluation and relevance metrics
Applications and outlook
Contents
Introduction to Multimedia.- Information Retrieval.- Multimedia Features.- Storage of Multimedia Objects.- Distribution of Multimedia Objects.- Indexing.- Retrieval.- Explainable MMIR.
