Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking

Introduction to Content–Based Video Browsing and Retrieval

HongJiang Zhang,     Microsoft Research, China

CONSIDERING the great size of video data, developing means for management and relevance assessment of video documents is even more critical than the same process for other media types. The human production of text-based descriptive data of video content has the same shortcomings as text-based indexing of image data: It is subjective, inaccurate, and incomplete. Moreover, the manual production of video content description is even more time consuming—and thus more costly—to the point that it is almost impossible to generate descriptive text for the vast amount of video data available. Content-based image retrieval technologies can be extended ...