Image Databases: Search and Retrieval of Digital Imagery

This book brings together acknowledged experts and researchers to discuss all aspects of image databases and the search engines used to retrieve image data from them. This comprehensive volume covers architecture, indexing, retrieval, transmission, display, and user interface issues.

Contents

Contributors
Preface

1. Digital Imagery: Fundamentals
2. Visible Image Retrieval
3. Satellite Imagery in Earth Science Applications
4. Medical Imagery
5. Images in the Exploration for Oil and Gas
6. Storage Architectures for Digital Imagery
7. Database Support for Multimedia Applications
8. Image Compression - A Review
9. Transmission of Digital Imagery
10. Introduction to Content-Based Image Retrieval - Overview of Key Techniques
11. Color for Image Retrieval
12. Texture Features for Image Retrieval
13. Shape Representation for Image Retrieval
14. Multidimensional Indexing Structures for Content-Based Retrieval
15. Multimedia Indexing
16. Compressed or Progressive Image Search
17. Concepts and Techniques for Indexing Visual Semantics

Index