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Imagine you are a designer working on the next Star Wars movie. You have seen thousands of images, graphics, and photos pass by your monitor. However, you can only recall a few characteristics of the images — perhaps it had a gorgeous night sky scene, or lonely sand dunes; or maybe it had a Gothic feeling. How do you find the visual imagery? Instead of being a designer, perhaps you are a news journalist who needs to quickly make a compilation of the millennium celebrations from around the world. How do you find the right video shots? Visual information retrieval (VIR) is focussed on paradigms for finding visual imagery: i. e., photos, graphics, and video from large collections which are spread over a wide variety of media such as DVDs, the WWW, or wordprocessor documents.
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Lew, M.S., Huang, T.S. (2001). Visual Information Retrieval: Paradigms, Applications, and Research Issues. In: Lew, M.S. (eds) Principles of Visual Information Retrieval. Advances in Pattern Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3702-3_1
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