Principles of Visual Information Retrieval (Advances in Pattern Recognition)

the long version

"This volume covers the latest advances in Visual Information Retrieval (VIR), and develops a foundation that can be used for further research and study. It covers all the major paradigms and techniques; the state of the art in prevalent features such as color, texture, and shape; and advanced topics such as visual learning, video indexing, and multi-modal VIR." "Principles of Visual Information Retrieval will be a valuable reference guide for anyone researching or studying in multimedia VIR; multimedia databases, computer vision, and pattern recognition."--Jacket.