Image and Video Retrieval, 5 conf., CIVR 2006

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2006, held in Singapore in July 2006.

The 18 revised full papers and 30 poster papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 5 papers of 1 special session and those of 10 demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Besides the invited and industrial presentations the papers are organized in topical sections on interactive image and video retrieval, semantic image retrieval, visual feature analysis, learning and classification, image and video retrieval metrics, and machine tagging.