Table of contents

The following topics are dealt with: content-based multimedia indexing; audio content extraction; audio indexing; content-based search; semantic region identification and tracking; semantic event identification; large scale multimedia database management; similarity search; metadata generation, coding and transformation; multimodal fusion; multimedia data mining; multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools; multimedia recommendation; multimedia retrieval; personalization and content adaptation; summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content; user interaction and relevance feedback; visual content extraction; and visual indexing.