Intelligent Image Databases: Towards Advanced Image Retrieval addresses the image feature selection issue in developing content-based image retrieval systems. T

This book covers the principles and recent research results in intelligent image database systems design. Special emphasis is placed on spatial reasoning and th

The explosive growth of multimedia data transmission has generated a critical need for efficient, high-capacity image databases, as well as powerful search engi

The World Wide Web and the Internet are signs that things will be very different in the future. And what is so striking about this computer-age future is that i

This volume is the first in a series which aims to contribute to the wider dissemination of the results of research and development in database systems for non-