Based on more than 10 years of teaching experience, Blanken and his coeditors
have assembled all the topics that should be covered in advanced undergraduate
or graduate courses on multimedia retrieval and multimedia databases. The single
chapters of this textbook explain the general architecture of multimedia
information retrieval systems and cover various metadata languages such as
Dublin Core, RDF, or MPEG. The authors emphasize high-level features and show
how these are used in mathematical models to support the retrieval process. For
each chapter, there s detail on further reading, and additional exercises and
teaching material is available online.