Showing papers on "Multimedia database published in 1989"

Multimedia search system using a plurality of entry path means which indicate interrelatedness of information

Abstract: A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths. Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder search, a topic tree search, a picture explorer search, a history timeline search, a world atlas search, a researcher's assistant search, and a feature articles search.

Content oriented visual interface using video icons for visual database systems

Abstract: The importance of content-oriented visual user interfaces using video icons for visual database systems is clarified. The effectiveness of both still and live video images, especially for user's browsing and interaction, is shown by means of the MediaBENCH (hypermedia basic environment for computer and human interactions), which is a basic prototype multimedia database system. Various methods of handling video data on the MediaBENCH are introduced and discussed to show how video data can be manipulated on visual database systems which deal with spatial and temporal factors. A visual interface using video icons is quite suitable to video editing, presentation support or other electronic video document systems. >

A network environment for studying multimedia network architecture and control

Abstract: In Bellcore's Integrated Media Architecture Laboratory (IMAL) architecture, control, and network design issues (including performance and its implications, traffic engineering, resource sizing, operations, and network architectures) of network-based multimedia services that are likely to exist in future broadband networks (e.g. broadband integrated services digital network) are studied. The authors present an overview of multimedia services that use audio, video, graphics, text, and other sorts of data; describe the laboratory environment used to support these services; and provide a high-level description of how these services have been implemented as networked modules. It is noted that, not only must these applications to able to exist on the same network, but they should be able to coordinate their functions and share information in the most natural format. The development of generic server models for all of these services and efforts to make their use intuitive are discussed. >

Using guides to explore multimedia databases

Abstract: The design and implementation of a multimedia database is surveyed and an interface technique called guides is presented, which simplifies database access by alleviating the need to construct search queries. The user is given a selection of images of people who embody easily understood points of view. A user can choose a guide as a companion while browsing the database. At each database node the user is provided with the guides next choice and thus can follow the interest path of a certain type of individual. The graphical tools and interface provided to the text, graphics and sound database are presented. The design and functionality of alphabetical and topical indexes, multimedia tours, timelines and animated maps are detailed. Future directions for development are indicated. The concept of guides can be easily generalized and applied to other databases. >

A multimedia database management system supporting contents search in media data / [by] Vincent Y. Lum [and] Klaus Meyer-Wegener.

Abstract: It is feasible now to store and manage in computers new types of data like text, images, graphics, and sound recordings. This paper claims that database management systems should be extended to organize these new types of data and to enable search based on their contents. Media objects are modelled as attributes of abstract data types. The contents is captured in terms of natural language descriptions and is translated by a parser into predicates for easy matching with query phrases. The implications of this approach are discussed: data organization for multimedia including contents representation, the dictionary used by the parser to recognize words and assign predicates, rules to utilize semantic relationships in the query evaluation, and access paths to speed up the search for the descriptions. The result is an architecture for multimedia database management systems that combines the additional components needed with the conventional data management and identifies their ways of interaction. Three types of user interfaces are offered that require different levels of skill. The architecture is modular and allows to integrate more advanced AI techniques once they become available. Klaus Meyer-Wegener's permanent address is: Universiiaet Kaiserslautem, Fachbereich Informatik, Postfach 30 49, 6750 Kaiserslautem, West Germany, e-mail: meyerweg@uklirb.uucp. Direct Funding (with external "sponsor")

On Using ODA for Multimedia Database Applications.

Abstract: This Paper provides some background on multimedia systems and ODA, and considers whether ODA can meet some needs of muftimedia database Systems: multiple kinds of primitive data, multiple presentation of data, multiple description of data, extensibility of primitive data, muliple structures imposed on data, limited repetition of structure, efficient representation of data. Features and shortcomings of ODA for supporting multimedia database systems are discussed.

Moods: a modular, object-oriented design database system

Abstract: MOODS is a database management system that can control multiple physical databases integrated through the object oriented paradigm. In addition to enabling the representation of design data, this system can represent data associated to the design process and to integrate designers’ supporting tool s in a uniform way. Hence, MOODS can support a multimedia database, with adequate features not only for engineering design but also for a broader class of non-conventional applications.