Content based Information Retrieval

Introduction to multimedia content (i.e., text, audio, image, and video objects); multiple modalities of information (i.e., textual, acoustic, and visual); web and multimedia contents; indexing and retrieval of various types of multimedia-based content; multimedia content descriptors and feature sets; multimedia content modeling; structured and semi-structured data models; Content based indexing and retrieval models; CBIR architectures; multimedia information retrieval and ranking; content-based web search; CBIR evaluation; emerging trend in CBIR.