ImageMiner^™ — Intelligent Retrieval for Images and Videos

The large amount of available multimedia information (e.g. videos, audio, images) requires efficient and effective annotation and retrieval methods.

The System ImageMiner, which was developed at the University of Bremen in the AI group, is designed for content-based retrieval of single images.

As videos become a more important role in the frame of multimedia, we want to make videos available for ImageMiner. The first step is the detection and extraction of shots from a video using a histogram based method. The second step is to combine the images in a shot to a single image. This image describes the shot (Mosaicing-technique) and can be analyzed with ImageMiner.