Overview of those developments which have taken the practice of image & video retrieval

090729
Enser, P. (2008). The evolution of visual information retrieval. Journal of Information Science 2008, 34(4), 531-546.

This paper seeks to provide a brief overview of those developments which have taken the theory and practice of image and video retrieval into the digital age. Drawing on a voluminous literature, the context in which visual information retrieval takes place is followed by a consideration of the conceptual and practical challenges posed by the representation and recovery of visual material on the basis of its semantic content. An historical account of research endeavours in content-based retrieval, directed towards the automation of these operations in digital image scenarios, provides the main thrust of the paper. Finally, a look forwards locates visual information retrieval research within the wider context of content-based multimedia retrieval.

1. The context of visual information retrieval
   講到目前大家看到冰山一角，目前著重的圖像搜尋在靜態的圖片搜尋表現較佳，但是對於其他運用在醫療、建築方面更有建設性的內容還沒有出現；現在做的某些紀錄方式跟圖書館館員在做的很像~把東西一頁頁翻過去，然後適時給一些權威控制
   
   ※Technical Advisory Service for Images: イギリスを拠点とするTASI（The Technical Advisory Service for Imagesは画像関連の情報の保守管理、デジタル制作での学術的コミュニティへのアドバイスやサポートを行います。
   
   
2. Image indexing
   
3. Analysis of user needs
   一些搜尋工具的設計其實無法對新加入的圖片有預測功能，只能在某個特定的時空範圍中搜尋，搜尋的重點著重在一般的或情感的表達。
   
4. Towards content-based image retrieval
5. Towards semantic image retrieval
6. Content-based video retrieval