The recent advances in the image data capture, storage and communication technologies have brought a rapid growth of image and video contents. Image and video data mining, the process of extracting hidden patterns from image and video data, becomes an important and emerging task. Despite a lot of previous work, data mining techniques that are successful in mining text and transaction data cannot simply apply to image and video data that are much more complex. Due to the structure and content variations of the visual patterns, it is not a trivial task to discover meaningful patterns...