Semantic agents for content-based discovery in distributed image libraries

The amount, size, and diversity of multimedia information libraries accessible over the Internet and intranets are continuously increasing. This explosion of information demands content-based network information discovery in order to avoid overloading users with irrelevant information during access. Distributed agent systems promise to be a platform to deliver the scalability and extensibility required by dynamic heterogeneous distributed digital libraries. The authors describe the integration of content-based image indexing techniques in a distributed agent system to allow effective and scalable information discovery in large-scale distributed image libraries