Efficient Indexing, Browsing and Retrieval of Image /Video Content

145 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999.The main contributions of this thesis axe: (i) reliable and robust feature extraction and representation techniques for images and videos; (ii) introduction of relevance feedback techniques to image retrieval, which greatly improves the retrieval performance and alleviates the user's query formulation burden; and (iii) introduction of a video hierarchical structure and construction of video Table of Contents to facilitate the video analysis and retrieval. Extensive experimental results over large test data sets have validated the proposed approaches.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD