Download or read book Multimedia Databases And Image Communication - Proceedings Of The Workshop On Mdic 2004 written by Andrea F Abate and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-01-19 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a strong need for advances in the fields of image indexing and retrieval and visual query languages for multimedia databases. Image technology is facing both classical and novel problems for the organization and filtering of increasingly large amounts of pictorial data. Novel kinds of problems, such as indexing and high-level content-base, accessing to image databases, human interaction with multimedia systems, approaches to multimedial data, biometrics, data mining, computer graphics and augmented reality, have grown into real-life issues.The papers in this proceedings volume relate to the subject matter of multimedia databases and image communication. They offer different approaches which help to keep the field of research lively and interesting.