Open system for indexing and retrieving multimedia information

TLDR: In this article, the authors present an open information retrieval system for multimedia information retrieval, which can adapt its results to several Information uses contexts and solve the indexing and the representing problem by annotation process.

Abstract: Managing the increasing growth of multimedia content still poses some problems. The challenge is to propose relevant information to the users among the large volume of information available. The main idea that drives our approach is to provide an open information retrieval system, which can adapt its results to several Information uses contexts. In this paper, we review multimedia information retrieval systems from the perspective of user's information needs. We propose solving the indexing and the representing problem by annotation process.