INTRODUCTION Introduction to Video Databases Oge Marques and Borko Furht VIDEO MODELING AND REPRESENTATION Modeling Video Using Input/Output Markov Models with Application to Multi-Modal Event Detection Ashutosh Garg, Milind R. Naphade, and Thomas S. Huang Statistical Models of Video Structure and Semantics Nuno Vasconcelos Flavor: A Language for Media Representation Alexandros Eleftheriadis and Danny Hong Integrating Domain Knowledge and Visual Evidence to Support Highlight Detection in Sports Videos Juergen Assfalg, Marco Bertini, Carlo Colombo, and Alberto Del Bimbo A Generic Event Model and Sports Video Processing for Summarization and Model-Based Search Ahmet Ekin and A. Murat Tekalp VIDEO SEGMENTATION AND SUMMARIZATION Temporal segmentation of video data Edoardo Ardizzone and Marco La Cascia A Temporal Multi-Resolution Approach to Video Shot Segmentation Tat-Seng Chua, A. Chandrashekhara, and HuaMin Feng Video Summaries through Multimodal Analysis Michael A. Smith, Howard D. Watclar, and Michael G. Christel Audio and Visual Content Summarization of a Video Program Yihong Gong Adaptive Video Summarization Philippe Mulhem, Jerome Gensel, and Herve Martin Adaptive Video Segmentation and Summarization Charles B. Owen and John K. Dixon Augmented Imagery for Digital Video Applications Charles B. Owen, Ji Zhou, Kwok Hung Tang, and Fan Xiao Video Indexing and Summarization Service for Mobile Users Mohamed Ahmed and Ahmed Karmouch Video Shot Detection Using Color Anglogram and Latent Semantic Indexing: From To Semantics Rong Zhao and William I. Grosky DESIGNING AND INTERACTING WITH VIDEO DATABASES Tools and Techniques for Providing Interactive Video Database Applications Rune Hjelsvold and Subu Vdaygiri Animation Databases Z. Huang, N.Chokkareddy, and B. Prabhakaran Video Intelligent Exploration Chabane Djeraba, Younes Hafri, and Bruno Bachimont A Video Database Algebra A. Picariello, M. L. Sapino, and V.S. Subrahmanian AUDIO AND VIDEO INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL Audio Indexing and Retrieval Zhu Liu and Yao Wang Relevance Feedback in Multimedia Databases Michael Ortega-Binderberger and Sharad Mehrotra Organizational Principles of Video Data Simone SantiniSegmentation and Classification of Moving Video Objects Dirk Farin, Thomas Haenselmann, Stephan Kopf, Gerald Kuhne, and Wolfgang Effelsberg A Web-based Video Retrieval System: Architecture, Semantic Extraction and Experimental Development Qing Li, H Lilian Tang, Horace H. S. Ip, and Shermann S. M. Chan From Low Level Features to High Level Semantics Cha Zhang and Tsuhan Chen Video Indexing and Retrieval using MPEG-7 John R. Smith Indexing Video Archives: Analyzing, Organizing, and Searching Video Information Shin'ichi Satoh and Norio Katayama Efficient Video Similarity Measurement Using Video Signatures Sen-ching Samson Cheung and Avideh Zakhor Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases Agma Traina and Caetano Traina Jr. Small Sample Learning Issues for Interactive Video Retrieval Xiang Sean Zhou and Thomas S. Huang VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS Cost Effective and Scalable Video Streaming Techniques Kien A. Hua and Mounir Tantaoui Design and Development of a Scalable End-to-End Streaming Architecture Cyrus Shahabi and Roger Zimmermann Streaming Multimedia Presentation in Distributed Database Environments Aidong Zhang, Ramazan Savaso Aygun, and Yuqing Song Video Streaming: Concepts, Algorithms, and Systems John G. Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan, and Susie J. Wee Continuous Display of Video Objects Using Heterogeneous Disk Subsystems Shahram Ghandeharizadeh and Seon Ho Kim Technologies and Standards for Universal Multimedia Access Anthony Vetro and Hari Kalva Server-Based Service Aggregation Schemes for Interactive Video-on-Demand Prithwish Basu, Thomas D. C. Little, Wang Ke, and Rajesh Krishnan Challenges in Distributed Video Management and Delivery Rainer Lienhart, Igor Kozintsev, Yen-Kuang Chen, Matthew Holliman, Minerva Yeung, Andre Zaccarin, and Rohit Puri Video Compression: State of the Art and New Trends Luis Torres and Edward Delp VIDEO PROCESSING Compressed-Domain Video Processing Susie Wee, Bo Shen, and John Apostolopoulos Objective Video Quality Assessment Zhou Wang, Hamid R. Sheikh, and Alan C. Bovik Video Watermarking: Overview and Challenges Gwenael Doerr and Jean-Luc Dugelay CASE STUDIES AND APPLICATIONS Creating Personalized Video Presentations Using Multimodal Processing David Gibbon, Lee Begeja, Zhu Liu, Bernard Renger, and Behzad Shahraray Segmenting Stories in News Video Lekha Chaisorn, Tat-Seng Chua, and Chin-Hui Lee The Video Scout System: Content-based Analysis and Retrieval for Personal Video Recorders Nevenka Dimitrova, Radu Jasinschi, Lalitha Agnihotri, John Zimmerman, Thomas McGee, and Dongge Li PANEL OF EXPERTS: THE FUTURE OF VIDEO DATABASES