Introduction to Video Search Engines

From the reviews:

"Gibbon and Liu attribute the growing importance of video search engine technology to the rapid growth of video on the Web and the ever-increasing speed of broadband access to the Internet. … As the title suggests, this text … provide a comprehensive treatment of the current state of such technology, and can serve as a reference tool for readers of all levels. Clearly, the applications of multimedia searches cover many disciplines, so this book should broaden many readers’ perspectives." (R. Goldberg, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2009)

“This book by David C. Gibbon and Zhu Liu from AT&T is a timely analysis of the current state of the art in video search … . Overall I very much enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to colleagues. … I feel that this book will serve as a useful reference for me in future work. I would also recommend this book to others working in information retrieval who want to understand video content and the processing of this multimedia data source.” (Colum Foley, Information Retrieval, Issue 13, 2010)