内容简介
Theexplosivegrowthofmultimediadatatransmissionhasgeneratedacriticalneedforefficient,high-capacityimagedatabases,aswellaspowerfulsearchenginestoretrieveimagedatafromthem.Thisbookbringstogethercontributionsbyaninternationalall-starteamofinnovatorsinthefieldwhosharetheirinsightsintoallkeyaspectsofimagedatabaseandsearchengineconstruction.Readersgetin-depthdiscussionsoftheentirerangeofcrucialimagedatabasearchitecture,indexingandretrieval,transmission,display,anduserinterfaceissues.And,usingexamplesfromanarrayofdisciplines,theauthorspresentcutting-edgeapplicationsinmedicalimagery,multimediacommunications,earthscience,remotesensing,andothermajorapplicationareas.
作者简介
VITTORIOCASTELLIreceivedhisMSinbothstatisticsandelectricalengineeringandhisPhDinelectricalengineeringfromStanfordUniversity.HecurrentlyworksattheIBMThomasJ.WatsonResearchCenter,wherehismainresearchinterestsincludeinformationtheory,statistics,classification,andtheirapplicationstoperformanceanalysisandcomputerarchitecture.LAWRENCED.BERGMANreceivedhisPhDinComputerSciencefromtheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill,andcurrentlyworksattheIBMThomasJ.WatsonResearchCenter.Hisresearchinterestsincludeuser-interfacesandvisualizationtoolsforcontent-basedretrieval,andapplicationdevelopmentenvironmentsforpervasivecomputing.