In the recent years, digital image and video have emerged as the new techniques for the creation, distribution and storage of information. Latest developments in multimedia technologies facilitate the capture and storage of video data with comparatively low-cost computers. Moreover, the novel possibilities provided by the information highways have resulted in the widespread availability of large amount of video data. Nevertheless these data are highly futile unless appropriate search methodologies are employed. Contemporary users are dissatisfied with the video retrieval systems that offer analogue VCR functionality. Content-based search and retrieval of video data has turned out to be a demanding...