TY - BOOK AU - Santini,Simone AU - Gibson,Jerry D. TI - Exploratory image databases : : content-based retrieval T2 - Communications, networking and multimedia SN - 9780126192612 AV - TA1637 SAN PY - 2001/// CY - San Diego, Calif. : PB - Academic Press, KW - Database design KW - Image processing KW - Digital techniques. KW - Multimedia systems. N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliography; Front Cover; Exploratory Image Databases: Content-Based Retrieval; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. e? a??????????? (Math Came Later); Chapter 1. An Eerie Sense of Deja Vu; Chapter 2. The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Semantics; Chapter 3. How You Can Know You Are Right; Part II: De Re Visiva Principia Geometrica; Chapter 4. Similarity; Chapter 5. Systems with Limited Ontologies; Chapter 6. Systems with General Ontologies; Chapter 7. Writing About Images; Part III: e cerca e truova e quello officio adempie; Chapter 8. Algebra and the Modern Query N2 - The explosion of computer use and internet communication has placed new emphasis on the ability to store, retrieve and search for all types of images, both still photo and video images. The success and the future of visual information retrieval depends on the cutting edge research and applications explored in this book. It combines the expertise from both computer vision and database research. Unlike text retrieval and text/numeric databases the challenges of image databases are enormous. How do you use "data mining" to search for an image if you do not have "key words" to ER -