A multimedia content retrieval algorithm for interactive broadband applications

There is an increasing demand in multimedia information systems for a passage retrieval facility that permits extracting individual excerpts of multimedia documents. In this paper, we propose an effective technique for multimedia passage retrieval. The approach is based on analyzing the full content of documents for the purpose of retrieving all multimedia passages that satisfy a query description. The proposed approach demonstrates that fast and effective retrieval of multimedia information is possible, despite the large amount of data involved in multimedia documents