CONTENT-BASED RETRIEVAL OF MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION

The recent information explosion has led to massively increased demand for multimedia data storage and retrieval techniques. Content-based retrieval is an important alternative and complement to the traditional keyword-based searching for multimedia data and can greatly enhance information management. For the last ten years, the Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Group and recently the Center for Multimedia Signal Processing (CMSP) have conducted systematic studies and research activities on this topic. Some of the works relating to content-based image/video retrieval and their applications are briefly presented in this paper.