Video Data Management and Information Retrieval combines the two important areas of research within computer technology and presents them in comprehensive, easy to understand manner. Video Data Management and Information Retrieval is ideal for graduates and under-graduates, as well as researchers working in either video data management or information retrieval. It takes an in depth look at many relevant topics within both video data management and information retrieval. In addition to dissecting those issues, the book also provides a ""big picture"" view of each topic. This shows the relevance of each issue and how those areas affect every one today.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Sagarmay Deb, University of Southern Queensland, Australia; Section I: An Introduction to Video Data Management and Information Retrieval; Chapter 1: Video Data Management and Information Retrieval Sagarmay Deb, University of Southern Queensland, Australia; Section II: Video Data Storage techniques and Networking; Chapter 2: HYDRA: High-performance Data Recording Architecture for Streaming Data; Roger Zimmermann, University of Southern California, USA; Kun Fu, University of Southern California, USA; Dwipal A. Desai, University of Southern California, USA; Chapter 3: Wearable and Ubiquitous Video Data Management for Computational Augmentation of Human Memory; Tatsuyuki Kawamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan; Takahiro Ueoka, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan; Yasuyuki Kono, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan; Masatsugu Kidode, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan; Chapter 4: Adaptive Summarization of Digital Video Data; Waleed E. Farag, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Hussein Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion University, USA; Chapter 5: Very Low Bit Rate Video Coding; Manoranjan Paul, Monash University, Australia; Dr. Manzur Murshed, Monash University, Australia; Prof. Laurence S. Dooley, Monash University, Australia; Section III: Video Data Security and Video Data Synchronization and timeliness; Chapter 6: Video Biometrics; Mayank Vatsa, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India; Richa Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India; P. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India; Chapter 7: Video Presentation Management; Hun-Hui Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC; Yi-Chun Liao, Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC; Yi-Jen Liu, Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC; Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC; Section IV: Video Shot Boundary Detection; Chapter 8: Video Shot Boundary Detection; Waleed E. Farag, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Hussein Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion University, USA; Chapter 9: Innovative Shot Boundary Detection for Video Indexing; Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA; Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA; Chengcui Zhang, Florida International University, USA; Chapter 10: A Soft-decision Histogram from the HSV Color Space for Video Shot Detection; Shamik Sural, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India; M. Mohan, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India; A. K. Majumdar, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India; Section V: Video Feature Extractions; Chapter 11: News Video Indexing and Abstraction by Specific Visual Cues: MSC and News Caption; Fan Jiang, Tsinghua University, China; Yu-Jin Zhang, Tsinghua University, China; Section VI: Video Information Retrieval; Chapter 12: An Overview of Video Information Retrieval Techniques; Sagarmay Deb, University of Southern Queensland, Australia; Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University of Technology, Australia; Chapter 13: A Framework for Indexing Personal Videoconference; Jiqiang Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Michael R. Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Jenq-Neng Hwang, University of Washington, USA; Chapter 14: Video Abstraction; JungHwan Oh, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA; Quan Wen, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA; Sae Hwang, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA; Jeongkyu Lee, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA; Chapter 15: Video Summarization based on Human Face Detection and Recognition; Hong-Mo Je, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea; Daijin Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea; Sung-Yang Bang, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea; About the Authors Index