  Content-based multimedia information retrieval is an interesting research
area since it allows retrieval based on inherent characteristic of multimedia
objects. For example retrieval based on visual characteristics such as colour,
shapes or textures of objects in images or retrieval based on spatial
relationships among objects in the media (images or video clips). This paper
reviews some work done in image and video retrieval and then proposes an
integrated model that can handle images and video clips uniformly. Using this
model retrieval on images or video clips can be done based on the same
framework.
