In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth a
revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and
processing: the World Wide Web is becoming an enormous and expanding
distributed digital library. Along with the development of the Web,
image indexing and retrieval have grown into research areas sharing a
vision of intelligent agents. Far beyond Web searching, image indexing
and retrieval can potentially be applied to many other areas, including
biomedicine, space science, biometric identification, digital libraries,
the military, education, commerce, culture and entertainment.
Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling Approaches to Image
Retrieval describes several approaches of integrating machine learning
and statistical modeling into an image retrieval and indexing system
that demonstrates promising results. The topics of this book reflect
authors' experiences of machine learning and statistical modeling based
image indexing and retrieval. This book contains detailed references for
further reading and research in this field as well.