MPEG, in addition to being an international standard, is currently the most popular coding scheme for stored video. For several applications that require stored video, such as vid...
Video-on-demand (VOD) is a very promising multimedia application of the near future. In order for such a service to be commercially viable, efficient storage and retrieval schemes...
During the last years, the amount of multimedia content has greatly increased. This has multiplied the need of efficient compression of the content but also the ability to search...
In visual information retrieval the careful choice of suitable proximity measures is a crucial success factor. The evaluation presented in this paper aims at showing that the dist...
Unlike its predecessors, MPEG-7 standardizes multimedia metadata description. By providing robust descriptors and an effective system for storing them, MPEG-7 is designed to provi...