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The evolution of visual information retrieval

University of Brighton, United Kingdom, peter.enser{at}btinternet.com

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.

Key Words: visual information retrieval • image retrieval • video retrieval • semantic image retrieval • content-based retrieval

This version was published on August 1, 2008

Journal of Information Science, Vol. 34, No. 4, 531-546 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0165551508091013


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