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The amount of audiovisual information available in digital format has grown exponentially in recent years. Gigabytes of new images, audio and video clips are generated and stored everyday, helping to build up a huge, distributed, mostly unstructured repository of multimedia information, much of which can be accessed through the Internet.
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Marques, O., Furht, B. (2002). Introduction. In: Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval. Multimedia Systems and Applications Series, vol 21. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0987-5_1
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