1. Guest Editorial: Content-Based Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval

   • Chabane Djeraba

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 107 - 111

2. Fixed Queries Array: A Fast and Economical Data Structure for Proximity Searching

   • Edgar Chávez
   • José L. Marroquín
   • Gonzalo Navarro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 135

3. Multi-Modal Dialog Scene Detection Using Hidden Markov Models for Content-Based Multimedia Indexing

   • A. Aydin Alatan
   • Ali N. Akansu
   • Wayne Wolf

   OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 151

4. The ToCAI Description Scheme for Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Documents

   • N. Adami
   • A. Bugatti
   • L.A. Rossi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 173

5. Shot Change Detection Using Scene-Based Constraint

   • Loong-Fah Cheong
   • Hong Huo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 186

6. Audio Partitioning and Transcription for Broadcast Data Indexation

   • J.L. Gauvain
   • L. Lamel
   • G. Adda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 200

7. Regions-of-Interest and Spatial Layout for Content-Based Image Retrieval

   • Baback Moghaddam
   • Henning Biermann
   • Dimitris Margaritis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 210