A neural network scheme is presented in this paper for adaptive video indexing and retrieval. First, a limited but characteristic amount of frames are extracted from each video scene, by minimizing a cross-correlation criterion. Low level features are extracted to indicate the frame characteristics, such as color and motion segments. This is due to the fact that extraction of high-level, semant...

the third civilization wave is characterized by the development of information society. in future, a high information availability and knowledge are conceived as prominent accelerators of economy. under the third wave, the community of computer experts understands the network age. the attribute ‘network’ expresses current trends, i.e. e-business, virtual organizations, virtual teams, etc. bette...