Multimedia technologies are rapidly attracting more and more interest every day. The Internet as seen from the end user is one of the reasons for this phenomenon, but not the only one. Video on Demand is one of the buzzwords today, but its real availability to the general public is yet to come. Content providers – such as publishers, broadcasting companies, and audio/video production ?rms – must be able to archive and index their productions for later retrieval. This is a formidable task, even more so when the material to be sorted encompasses many di?erent types of several media and covers a time span of several years. In order for such a vast amount of data to be easily available, existing database design models and indexing methodologies have to be improved and re?ned. In addition, new techniques especially tailored to the various types of multimedia must be devised and evaluated. For archiving and trasmission, data compression is another issue that needs to be addressed. In many cases, it has been found that compression and indexing can be successfully integrated, since compressing the data by ?ltering out irrelevancy implies some degree of und- standing of the content structure.
Author(s): Shi-Kuo Chang (auth.), Maurizio Tucci (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2184
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 230
Tags: Multimedia Information Systems; Information Storage and Retrieval; Coding and Information Theory; Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Document Preparation and Text Processing
MAWC Operations for the Growing Book....Pages 3-15
Motion Mining....Pages 16-30
The Riddles of Murecine: The Role of Anthropological Research by Images and Visual Computing....Pages 33-41
Information Retrieval from Medical Database....Pages 42-52
M-CODD: A Technique for the Conceptual Design of Multimedia Databases....Pages 55-66
Controlling Concurrent Accesses in Multimedia Database Systems....Pages 67-76
Transformation Dataflow in Multimedia Software Engineering Using TAO_XML: A Component-Based Approach....Pages 77-89
Monitoring Electromagnetic Pollution: A GIS-Based Visual Approach....Pages 90-101
Querying and Browsing Multimedia Presentations....Pages 105-116
Content Image Retrieval: A New Query Paradigm Toward Analogy Based Indexing....Pages 117-129
Robust Image Retrieval Based on Texture Information....Pages 130-139
Symbolic Tile Categories for Spatial Reasoning on Objects Represented in Multiple-Resolution....Pages 140-151
Content-Based Indexing and Retrieval Supported by Mobile Agent Technology....Pages 152-166
Display Optimization For Image Browsing....Pages 167-176
Semantic Characterization of Visual Content for Sports Videos Annotation....Pages 179-191
Dialogue Scenes Detection in MPEG Movies: A Multi-expert Approach....Pages 192-201
A Proposal of a QoS Control Method for Digital Video Libraries....Pages 202-212
Enhanced Video Communication Using Gaze Correction with Simplified 3D Warping and Single Camera....Pages 213-224
