From the Back Cover
Video search engines enable users to take advantage of constantly growing video resources like, for example, video on demand, Internet television and YouTube, for a wide variety of applications including entertainment, education and communications.
David Gibbon and Zhu Liu describe the current state of video search engine technology and inform us about opportunities to contribute to the development of this field. Their book has a practical emphasis with the goal of bringing readers up to date on the state of the art in multimedia search technologies and systems. It explains the overall process of video content acquisition, indexing and retrieval with browsing, it provides overviews of constituent technologies such as information retrieval, Internet video systems, video and multimedia processing to extract index data, and it gives examples of research prototypes and existing commercial systems and describes their features. In parallel with the functional discussion, a historical perspective is provided, including many references to academic and industrial sources. Background information on digital media encoding and streaming standards, and information retrieval is also offered, making the book self-contained.
Introduction to Video Search Engines is intended for professionals and senior undergraduates or first-year graduate students in computer science or computer engineering, specializing in computer vision or multimedia systems. As multimedia search spans multiple disciplines, it is also valuable as a state-of-the-art reference for researchers and developers working in constituent technologies such as speech processing or information retrieval who seek to broaden their knowledge beyond their current areas of expertise.
David Gibbon joined Bell Laboratories in 1985 and is currently a Lead Member of Technical Staff in the Video and Multimedia Services Research Department at AT&T Labs - Research. His research interests include multimedia processing for searching and browsing of video databases and real-time video processing for communications applications. David has written book chapters and encyclopedia articles as well as numerous technical papers; he has 40 US patent filings and holds 14 US patents in the areas of multimedia indexing, streaming, and video analysis; and he is a member of the ACM, and a senior member of the IEEE. David contributes to IPTV industry standards for metadata and in 2007 he was awarded the AT&T Science and Technology Medal for outstanding technical leadership and innovation in the field of Video and Multimedia Processing and Digital Content Management.
Zhu Liu joined AT&T Labs - Research in 2000, and he is currently a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Video and Multimedia Services Research Department. His research interests include multimedia content processing, multimedia databases, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Zhu holds 7 US patents and he is the inventor of more than 20 pending patents in the areas of multimedia service and content analysis. He has published more than 40 refereed papers in international leading journals and at key conferences in the areas of multimedia. He is a member of ACM and Tau Beta Pi, and a senior member of the IEEE.
