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Technology has spurred the growth of huge image and video libraries, many growing into the hundreds of terabytes. As a result there is a great demand among organizations for the design of databases that can effectively support the storage, search, retrieval, and transmission of video data. Engineers and researchers in the field demand a comprehensive reference that will help them design and implement the most complex video database projects.

Handbook of Video Databases: Design and Applications presents a thorough overview in 45 chapters from more than 100 renowned experts in the field. This book provides the tools to help overcome the problems of storage, cataloging, and retrieval, by exploring content standardization and other content classification and analysis methods. The challenge of these complex problems make this book a must-have for video database practitioners in the fields of image and video processing, computer vision, multimedia systems, data mining, and many other diverse disciplines.

About the Authors

Borko Furht is a professor and chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. Before joining FAU, he was a vice president of research and a senior director of development at Modcomp, a computer company of Daimler Benz, Germany, a professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and senior scientist at the Institute "Boris Kidric"-Vinca, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He received Ph.D., MSEE, and B.Sc. (Dipl. Eng.) degrees from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He is the author of numerous scientific and technical papers, books, and holds two patents. His current research is in multimedia systems, video coding and compression, video databases, wireless multimedia, and Internet computing. He has received several technical and publishing awards, research grants from NSF, NASA, IBM, Xerox, and Racal Datacom, and has consulted for many high-tech companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, General Electric, JPL, NASA, Honeywell, Cordis, and RCA. He is a founder and editor-in chief of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Kluwer). He has given many invited talks, keynote lectures, seminars, and tutorials.

Oge Marques is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Centro Federal de Educa o Tecnol gica do Paran (CEFET-PR) in Curitiba, Brazil, a Master's degree in Electronic Engineering from Philips International Institute of Technological Studies in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Florida Atlantic University. During the last five years, he wrote two books, several book chapters and papers in the fields of Digital Image Processing and Visual Information Retrieval. His fields of interest include Visual Information Retrieval, Digital Image Processing, Video Processing and Communications, and Wireless Networks. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, and the Phi Kappa Phi.