Efficient and relevant retrieval of any type of the data, especially multimedia objects, is based on indexing technique. Due to complexity of multimedia data, existing indexing techniques for multimedia objects suffer from irrelevant retrieval. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) has already been successfully implemented for indexing text documents, which has reduced irrelevancy. The focus of thi...

Nowadays the WWW has rapidly growing with the expansion of image databases. From the huge amount of image databases, users have to retrieve relevant images by using an effective and efficient mechanism for image indexing and retrieval. Many techniques have come to fulfill this requirement. One way to fulfill this requirement is the traditional image database indexing and retrieval capabilities ...

This paper describes about Audio Indexing, Video Indexing, Content Based Image Indexing, and Content Based Multimedia Indexing i.e. Content-based indexing techniques. Indexing is concerned with compactly storing a large collection of terms and rapidly retrieving a set of candidate terms satisfying some property from a large collection of terms. Index is a structure or object in the database Ind...