This survey documents representation approaches for classification across different
modalities, from purely content-based methods to techniques utilizing external sources of …

When you hear the term" image management," do you think of making a good impression?
Or taking good care of Impressionists? If the latter, this book is for you Vast collections of …

Purpose–User‐created metadata, often referred to as folksonomy or social classification,
has received a considerable amount of attention in the digital library world. Social tagging is …

The availability of semantically annotated image and video assets constitutes a critical
prerequisite for the realisation of intelligent knowledge management services pertaining to …

A multimedia system needs a mechanism to communicate with its environment, the Internet,
clients, and applications. MPEG-7 provides a standard metadata format for global …

This paper seeks to provide a brief overview of those developments which have taken the
theory and practice of image and video retrieval into the digital age. Drawing on a …

This dissertation investigates the system-centred evaluation of visual information retrieval
from generic photographic collections. The development of visual information retrieval …

Purpose–To provide a better‐informed view of the extent of the semantic gap in image
retrieval, and the limited potential for bridging it offered by current semantic image retrieval …

Although images are visual information sources with little or no text associated with them,
users still tend to use text to describe images and formulate queries. This is because digital …

The library profession remains grounded in textual, print media, creating vulnerability amidst
a culture increasingly characterized as visual. This essay develops a model of visual …