This book is an extended collection of contributions that wereoriginally subm- ted to the 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2003), which was organized as part of the 26th German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI 2003), and held during September 15 18,2003at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Motivated by the overall success of the workshop as revealed by the stimulating atmosphere during the workshop and the number of very interested and active participants we ?nally decided to edit a book based on revised papers that were initially submitted to the...

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR 2009, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2009. In this title, the papers are organized in topical sections on grasping multimedia streams; pinpointing music; adapting distances; understanding images; and around the user.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR 2010, held in Linz, Austria, in August 2010. The 14 revised full papers and the invited contribution presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Context-based personalization; media information fusion; video retrieval; audio and music retrieval; adaptive similarities; and, finding and organizing.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR 2011, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2011. The 9 revised full papers and the invited contribution presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover topics ranging from theoretical work to practical implementations and its evaluation, most of them dealing with audio or music media. They are organized in topical sections on evaluation and user studies, audio and music, image retrieval, and similarity and music.