K. Selçuk Candan is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Maryland at College Park. Candan has authored more than 120 conference and journal articles, 9 patents, and many book chapters and, among his other scientific positions, has served as program chair for ACM Multimedia Conference '08, the Int. Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'10), and as an organizing committee member for ACM SIG Management of Data Conference (SIGMOD'06). Since 2005, he has also served as an editorial board member for the Very Large Databases (VLDB) journal. Maria Luisa Sapino is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Torino, where she also earned her Ph.D. There she leads the multimedia and heterogeneous data management group. Her scientific contributions include more than 60 conference and journal papers; her services as chair, organizer, and program committee member in major conferences and workshops on multimedia; and her collaborations with industrial research labs, including the RAI-Crit (Center for Research and Technological Innovation) and Telecom Italia Lab, on multimedia technologies.

• 1. Introduction: multimedia applications and data management requirements; 2. Models for multimedia data; 3. Common representations of multimedia features; 4. Feature quality and independence: why and how?; 5. Indexing, search, and retrieval of sequences; 6. Indexing, search, retrieval of graphs and trees; 7. Indexing, search, and retrieval of vectors; 8. Clustering techniques; 9. Classification; 10. Ranked retrieval; 11. Evaluation of retrieval; 12. User relevance feedback and collaborative filtering.

"This text book is a complete and excellent treatment of multimedia information retrieval and data management. It handles the entire spectrum by providing the basic theory needed and then gradually introduces the advanced techniques needed to tackle the complex issues in multimedia content retrieval." B. Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas