Table Of Contents

• Preface
• Sagarmay Deb, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

• Section I: An Introduction to Video Data Management and Information Retrieval

• Chapter 1: Video Data Management and Information Retrieval Sagarmay Deb, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

• Section II: Video Data Storage techniques and Networking

• Chapter 2: HYDRA: High-performance Data Recording Architecture for Streaming Data
• Roger Zimmermann, University of Southern California, USA
• Kun Fu, University of Southern California, USA
• Dwipal A. Desai, University of Southern California, USA
• Chapter 3: Wearable and Ubiquitous Video Data Management for Computational Augmentation of Human Memory
• Tatsuyuki Kawamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Takahiro Ueoka, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Yasuyuki Kono, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Masatsugu Kidode, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Chapter 4: Adaptive Summarization of Digital Video Data
• Waleed E. Farag, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Hussein Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion University, USA
• Chapter 5: Very Low Bit Rate Video Coding
• Manoranjan Paul, Monash University, Australia
• Dr. Manzur Murshed, Monash University, Australia
• Prof. Laurence S. Dooley, Monash University, Australia

• Section III: Video Data Security and Video Data Synchronization and timeliness

• Chapter 6: Video Biometrics
• Mayank Vatsa, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
• Richa Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
• P. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
• Chapter 7: Video Presentation Management
• Hun-Hui Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC
• Yi-Chun Liao, Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC
• Yi-Jen Liu, Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC
• Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC

• Section IV: Video Shot Boundary Detection

• Chapter 8: Video Shot Boundary Detection
• Waleed E. Farag, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Hussein Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion University, USA
• Chapter 9: Innovative Shot Boundary Detection for Video Indexing
• Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
• Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA
• Chengcui Zhang, Florida International University, USA
• Chapter 10: A Soft-decision Histogram from the HSV Color Space for Video Shot Detection
• Shamik Sural, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
• M. Mohan, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
• A. K. Majumdar, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

• Section V: Video Feature Extractions

• Chapter 11: News Video Indexing and Abstraction by Specific Visual Cues: MSC and News Caption
• Fan Jiang, Tsinghua University, China
• Yu-Jin Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

• Section VI: Video Information Retrieval

• Chapter 12: An Overview of Video Information Retrieval Techniques
• Sagarmay Deb, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
• Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University of Technology, Australia
• Chapter 13: A Framework for Indexing Personal Videoconference
• Jiqiang Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Michael R. Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Jenq-Neng Hwang, University of Washington, USA
• Chapter 14: Video Abstraction
• JungHwan Oh, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Quan Wen, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Sae Hwang, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Jeongkyu Lee, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Chapter 15: Video Summarization based on Human Face Detection and Recognition
• Hong-Mo Je, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
• Daijin Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
• Sung-Yang Bang, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea

• About the Authors Index