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Foundations of Large-Scale Multimedia Information Management and Retrieval

Mathematics of Perception

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  • Written by the utmost expert at Google Inc Dr Edward Chang, Director of Research
  • Covering knowledge representation, semantic analysis, and scalability issues in one comprehensive book
  • Written for the specialist while maintaining an accessible approach for students alike
  • A must-have in this ever-faster evolving area

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Perceptual Feature Extraction

    • Edward Y. Chang
    Pages 13-35
  3. Query Concept Learning

    • Edward Y. Chang
    Pages 37-72
  4. Similarity

    • Edward Y. Chang
    Pages 73-95
  5. Formulating Distance Functions

    • Edward Y. Chang
    Pages 97-119
  6. Multimodal Fusion

    • Edward Y. Chang
    Pages 121-140
  7. Fusing Content and Context with Causality

    • Edward Y. Chang
    Pages 141-169
  8. Imbalanced Data Learning

    • Edward Y. Chang
    Pages 191-211
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 287-291

About this book

"Foundations of Large-Scale Multimedia Information Management and Retrieval: Mathematics of Perception" covers knowledge representation and semantic analysis of multimedia data and scalability in signal extraction, data mining, and indexing. The book is divided into two parts: Part I - Knowledge Representation and Semantic Analysis focuses on the key components of mathematics of perception as it applies to data management and retrieval. These include feature selection/reduction, knowledge representation, semantic analysis, distance function formulation for measuring similarity, and multimodal fusion. Part II - Scalability Issues presents indexing and distributed methods for scaling up these components for high-dimensional data and Web-scale datasets. The book presents some real-world applications and remarks on future research and development directions. 

The book is designed for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in the fields of Computer Vision, MachineLearning, Large-scale Data Mining, Database, and Multimedia Information Retrieval.

Dr. Edward Y. Chang was a professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, before he joined Google as a research director in 2006. Dr. Chang received his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Google Inc., Mountain View, USA

    Edward Y. Chang

About the author

Dr. Edward Y. Chang was a professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, before he joined Google as a research director in 2006. Dr. Edward Y. Chang received his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University.

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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