Distributed Multimedia Retrieval Strategies for Large Scale Networked Systems W. Vogel & M. Büttner GmbH We are also grateful to 9783642696978 We are also grateful to the Royal Society of London and the Max– Planck–Gesellschaft who generous support of the Hans Kleinpoppen sym sium made this marvelous meeting and this proceedings possible Textbooks in these subjects usually have to be written by scientists actually involved in the research which is advancing the field demonstrates a practical working system which serves as a feasibility study Distributed Multimedia Retrieval Strategies for Large Scale Networked Systems presents an up to date research status in the domain of distributed video retrieval