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Section I Introduction
1. Introduction to Video Databases	p. 1
Section II Video modeling and representation
2. Modeling Video Using Input/Output Markov Models with Application to Multi-modal Event Detection	p. 23
3. Statistical Models of Video Structure and Semantics	p. 45
4. Flavor: A Language for Media Representation	p. 69
5. Integrating Domain Knowledge and Visual Evidence to Support Highlight Detection in Sports Videos	p. 97
6. A Generic Event Model and Sports Video Processing for Summarization and Model-Based Search	p. 123
Section III Video Segmentation and Summarization
7. Temporal Segmentation of Video Data	p. 149
8. A Temporal Multi-resolution Approach to Video Shot Segmentation	p. 177
9. Video Summaries through Multimodal Analysis	p. 207
10. Audio and Visual Content Summarization of a Video Program	p. 245
11. Adaptive Video Summarization	p. 279
12. Adaptive Video Segmentation and Summarization	p. 299
13. Augmented Imagery for Digital Video Applications	p. 319
14. Video Indexing and Summarization Service for Mobile Users	p. 349
15. Video Shot Detection Using Color Anglogram and Latent Semantic Indexing: From Contents to Semantics	p. 371
Section IV Designing and Interacting with Video Databases
16. Tools and Techniques for Providing Interactive Video Database Applications	p. 393
17. Animation Databases	p. 417
18. Video Intelligent Exploration	p. 441
19. A Video Database Algebra	p. 457
Section V Audio and Video Indexing and Retrieval
20. Audio Indexing and Retrieval	p. 483
21. Relevance Feedback in Multimedia Databases	p. 511
22. Organizational Principles of Video Data	p. 537
23. Segmentation and Classification of Moving Video Objects	p. 561
24. A Web-based Video Retrieval System: Architecture, Semantic Extraction, and Experimental Development	p. 593
25. From Low Level Features to High Level Semantics	p. 613
26. Video Indexing and Retrieval Using MPEG-7	p. 625
27. Indexing Video Archives: Analyzing, Organizing, and Searching Video Information	p. 651
28. Efficient Video Similarity Measurement Using Video Signatures	p. 679
29. Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases	p. 711
30. Small Sample Learning Issues for Interactive Video Retrieval	p. 739
Section VI Video Communications
31. Cost Effective and Scalable Video Streaming Techniques	p. 763
32. Design and Development of a Scalable End-to-End Streaming Architecture	p. 785
33. Streaming Multimedia Presentations in Distributed Database Environments	p. 807
34. Video Streaming: Concepts, Algorithms, and Systems	p. 831
35. Continuous Display of Video Objects using Heterogeneous Disk Subsystems	p. 865
36. Technologies and Standards for Universal Multimedia Access	p. 891
37. Server-Based Service Aggregation Schemes for Interactive Video-on-Demand	p. 927
38. Challenges in Distributed Video Management and Delivery	p. 961
39. Video Compression: State of the Art and New Trends	p. 991
Section VII Video Processing
40. Compressed-domain Video Processing	p. 1005
41. Objective Video Quality Assessment	p. 1041
42. Video Watermarking: Overview and Challenges	p. 1079
Section VIII Case Studies and Applications
43. Creating Personalized Video Presentations using Multimodal Processing	p. 1107
44. Segmenting Stories in News Video	p. 1133
45. The Video Scout System: Content-based Analysis and Retrieval for Personal Video Recorders	p. 1149
Section IX Panel of Experts: The Future of Video Databases: World-renowned experts answer fundamental questions about the state-of-the-art and future research directions in video databases and related topics	p. 1173
Index	p. 1199