Chapter I Introduction 1.1 Motivation 1.2 Proposed Solution 1.3 Structure of Book Chapter II Approaches to Video Retrieval 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Video Structure and Properties 2.3 Query 2.4 Similarity Metrics 2.5 Performance Evaluation Metrics 2.6 Systems Chapter III Spatio-temporal Image and Video Analysis 3.1 Spatio-temporal Information for Video Retrieval 3.2 Spatial Information Modelling in Multimedia Retrieval 3.3 Temporal Model 3.4 Spatio-temporal Information Fusion Chapter IV Video Spatio-temporal Analysis and Retrieval (VSTAR) 4.1 VSTAR Model Components 4.2 Spatial Image Analysis 4.3 A Model for the Temporal Analysis of Image Sequences ……