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Multimedia Information Retrieval Model .

Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer Verlag, 2009.

Abstract: Given a collection of multimedia documents, the goal of multimedia information retrieval (MIR) is to find the documents that are relevant to a user information need. A multimedia document is a complex information object, with components of different kinds, such as text, images, video and sound, all in digital form.