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The problem we focus on in this chapter is the design of fast searching methods that will search a database of multimedia objects to locate objects that match a query object, either exactly or approximately. Objects can be 2-dimensional colour images, gray-scale medical images in 2-d or 3-d (eg., MRI brain scans), 1-dimensional time series, digitised voice or music, video clips etc. A typical query by content would be:‘in a collection of colour photographs, find ones with the same colour distribution like a sunset photograph’.
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Faloutsos, C. (1997). Indexing of Multimedia Data. In: Apers, P.M.G., Blanken, H.M., Houtsma, M.A.W. (eds) Multimedia Databases in Perspective. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0957-0_10
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