The book covers three aspects. Each part is written in a structured way, however sometimes the authors are not completely clear on why they have chosen a certain approach for a problem. The part restoration covers the restoration of old movies with all kinds of flickering and scratches etc. The watermarking part is the most informative, and gives a good overview of the current approaches in this field. The benchmarking and problems that can be seen with benchmarking are good.

In many articles the authors will claim that their way of watermarking can cope with lossy compression and attacks, however the authors of this chapter, will demonstrate that this is not so easy.

The retrieval covers retrieval in video streams and a new CODEC is handled. This last chapter is not a good overview of retrieval in image databases, as most of the video streaming and compression is handled.