Intelligent Systems for Video Analysis and Access over the Internet

As growth in Web-based multimedia information accelerates, and broadband access becomes increasingly widespread, traditional approaches to manipulating, searching, interpreting, skimming, and integrating multimedia data are creating unacceptable bottlenecks. This book surveys todays most advanced solutions: the state-of-the-art art in efficient, automated multimedia content analysis, indexing, and access technologies for the next-generation multimedia Web. KEY TOPICS: The authors introduce state-of-the-art hierarchical video analysis software agents, and show how they can be placed strategically throughout the Internet, processing and decomposing multimedia streams in real-time, and facilitating efficient information access and sharing. They introduce new techniques for analyzing the perceptual (color, motion, and acoustic) and conceptual (semantic, text-based) contents of any multimedia stream. This book is part of the new IMSC Press series, from the Integrated Multimedia System Center at the University of Southern California, a federally funded center specializing in cutting-edge multimedia research. MARKET: For all product developers, software architects, academics, researchers, scientists, engineers, students, and users seeking state-of-the-art information about technologies for multimedia search, access, and sharing across the Internet.