Image and Video Databases: Restoration, Watermaking and Retrieval

This book provides an in-depth treatment of three important topics related to image and video databases: restoration, watermarking and retrieval. It is an outgrowth of the participation of the Delft University of Technology in the European Union ACTS program, a pre-competitive R&D program on Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (1994-1998). In particular the book has benefited from participation in the AURORA ans SMASH projects respectively automated film and video restoration and storage for multimedia systems (watermarking & retrieval).