Introduction to Video Search Engines [Hardcover]

David C. Gibbon (Author), Zhu Liu (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 3540793364 | ISBN-13: 978-3540793366 | Publication Date: November 17, 2008 | Edition: 1

Video search engines enable users to take advantage of constantly growing video resources like, for example, video on demand, Internet television and YouTube, for a wide variety of applications including entertainment, education and communications. David Gibbon and Zhu Liu describe the current state of video search engine technology and inform us about opportunities to contribute to the development of this field. Their book has a practical emphasis with the goal of bringing readers up to date on the state of the art in multimedia search technologies and systems. It explains the overall process of video content acquisition, indexing and retrieval with browsing, it provides overviews of constituent technologies such as information retrieval, Internet video systems, video and multimedia processing to extract index data, and it gives examples of research prototypes and existing commercial systems and describes their features. In parallel with the functional discussion, a historical perspective is provided, including many references to academic and industrial sources. Background information on digital media encoding and streaming standards, and information retrieval is also offered, making the book self-contained. "Introduction to Video Search Engines" is intended for professionals and senior undergraduates or first-year graduate students in computer science or computer engineering, specializing in computer vision or multimedia systems. As multimedia search spans multiple disciplines, it is also valuable as a state-of-the-art reference for researchers and developers working in constituent technologies such as speech processing or information retrieval who seek to broaden their knowledge beyond their current areas of expertise.

Editorial Reviews

Review

From the reviews: "Gibbon and Liu attribute the growing importance of video search engine technology to the rapid growth of video on the Web and the ever-increasing speed of broadband access to the Internet. … As the title suggests, this text … provide a comprehensive treatment of the current state of such technology, and can serve as a reference tool for readers of all levels. Clearly, the applications of multimedia searches cover many disciplines, so this book should broaden many readers’ perspectives." (R. Goldberg, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2009) “This book by David C. Gibbon and Zhu Liu from AT&T is a timely analysis of the current state of the art in video search … . Overall I very much enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to colleagues. … I feel that this book will serve as a useful reference for me in future work. I would also recommend this book to others working in information retrieval who want to understand video content and the processing of this multimedia data source.” (Colum Foley, Information Retrieval, Issue 13, 2010)

From the Back Cover

Video search engines enable users to take advantage of constantly growing video resources like, for example, video on demand, Internet television and YouTube, for a wide variety of applications including entertainment, education and communications. David Gibbon and Zhu Liu describe the current state of video search engine technology and inform us about opportunities to contribute to the development of this field. Their book has a practical emphasis with the goal of bringing readers up to date on the state of the art in multimedia search technologies and systems. It explains the overall process of video content acquisition, indexing and retrieval with browsing, it provides overviews of constituent technologies such as information retrieval, Internet video systems, video and multimedia processing to extract index data, and it gives examples of research prototypes and existing commercial systems and describes their features. In parallel with the functional discussion, a historical perspective is provided, including many references to academic and industrial sources. Background information on digital media encoding and streaming standards, and information retrieval is also offered, making the book self-contained. Introduction to Video Search Engines is intended for professionals and senior undergraduates or first-year graduate students in computer science or computer engineering, specializing in computer vision or multimedia systems. As multimedia search spans multiple disciplines, it is also valuable as a state-of-the-art reference for researchers and developers working in constituent technologies such as speech processing or information retrieval who seek to broaden their knowledge beyond their current areas of expertise.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 292 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540793364
• ISBN-13: 978-3540793366
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,164,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

David Gibbon is Lead Member of Technical Staff in the Video and Multimedia Technologies and Services Research Department at AT&T Labs - Research. His current research focus includes multimedia processing for automated metadata extraction with applications in media and entertainment services including video retrieval and content adaptation. In 2007, David received the AT&T Science and Technology Medal for outstanding technical leadership and innovation in the field of Video and Multimedia Processing and Digital Content Management and in 2001, the AT&T Sparks Award for Video Indexing Technology Commercialization. David contributes to standards efforts through the Metadata Committee of the ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum. He serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications and is a member of the ACM, and a senior member of the IEEE. He joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1985 and has over 50 U.S. Patent filings and holds 16 U.S. patents in the areas of multimedia indexing, streaming, and video analysis. He has written a book on video search, several book chapters and encyclopedia articles as well as numerous technical papers. David is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.