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Database Semantics

Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems

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Editors:
  1. Robert Meersman

    1. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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  2. Zahir Tari

    1. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

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  3. Scott Stevens

    1. Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 11)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Semantic Interactivity in Presence Systems

    • Ramesh Jain
    Pages 1-2

  3. Towards the Construction of the Multimedia Mediation Mechanism

    • Masao Sakauchi
    Pages 3-15

  4. Can WWW be Successful?

    • Hermann Maurer
    Pages 17-25

  5. Resource Prediction and Admission Control for Interactive Video

    • Karl Aberer, Silvia Hollfelder
    Pages 27-46

  6. Data Semantics for Improving Retrieval Performance of Digital News Video Systems

    • G. Ahanger, T. D. C. Little
    Pages 47-64

  7. Syntactical and Semantical Description of Video Sequences

    • N. Luth, A. Miene, P. Alshuth
    Pages 65-84

  8. A Multi-Model Framework for Video Information Systems

    • Uma Srinivasan, Craig Lindley, Bill Simpson-Young
    Pages 85-107

  9. COSIS: A Content-Oriented Shoeprint Identification System

    • Mohamed Tahar Meharga, Corinne Plazanet, Stefano Spaccapietra
    Pages 109-122

  10. A User Interface for Emergent Semantics in Image Databases

    • Simone Santini, Amarnath Gupta, Ramesh Jain
    Pages 123-143

  11. Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of TOOMM: A Temporal Object-Oriented Multimedia Data Model

    • Vera Goebel, Ilan Eini, Ketil Lund, Thomas Plagemann
    Pages 145-168

  12. Spatiotemporal Specification & Verification of Multimedia Scenarios

    • I. Kostalas, T. Sellis, M. Vazirgiannis
    Pages 169-188

  13. ZYX — A Semantic Model for Multimedia Documents and Presentations

    • Susanne Boll, Wolfgang Klas
    Pages 189-209

  14. Fuzzy Logic Techniques in Multimedia Databases Querying: A Preliminary Investigation of the Potentials

    • Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, Florence Sèdes
    Pages 211-229

  15. Defining Views in an Image Database System

    • Vincent Oria, M. Tamer Özsu, Duane Szafron, Paul J. Iglinski
    Pages 231-250

  16. A Three-Dimensional Representation Scheme for Indexing and Querying in Iconic Image Databases

    • Jae-Woo Chang
    Pages 251-269

  17. Multimedia Information Retrieval Framework: From Theory to Practice

    • F. Moelaert El-Hadidy, H. J. G. de Poot, D. D. Velthausz
    Pages 271-290

  18. Classification Based Navigation and Retrieval for Picture Archives

    • Sean Bechhofer, Carole Goble
    Pages 291-310

  19. Searching Distributed and Heterogeneous Digital Media: The VisualHarness Approach

    • Amit Sheth, Kshitij Shah, Krishnan Parasuraman, Srilekha Mudumbai
    Pages 311-330

  20. Using WG-Log Schemata to Represent Semistructured Data

    • E. Damiani, B. Oliboni, L. Tanca, D. Veronese
    Pages 331-349
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About this book

Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems reflects the state of the art of emerging research on the meaning of multimedia information, as presented during IFIP's Eighth Data Semantics Working Conference (DS-8), organized by its Working Group 2.6 on Databases, and held at Rotorua, New Zealand, in January 1999. DS-8 was planned as an active forum for researchers and practitioners focusing on those issues that involve the semantics of the information represented, stored, and manipulated by multimedia systems. Depending on the topic and state of research, issues may be covered either deeply theoretically or quite practically, or even both.
These proceedings contain twenty-one papers carefully selected by an International Programme Committee and organized in six thematic areas:
  • Video Data Modelling and Use;
  • Image Databases;
  • Applications of Multimedia Systems;
  • Multimedia Modeling in General;
  • Multimedia Information Retrieval;
  • Semantics and Metadata.
    For almost every area, important topics and issues include:
  • data modeling and query languages for media such as audio, video, and images;
  • methodological aspects of multimedia database design;
  • intelligent multimedia information retrieval;
  • knowledge discovery and data mining in multimedia information;
  • multimedia user interfaces.

Three visionary keynote addresses, by famous experts Ramesh Jain, Hermann Maurer and Masao Sakauchi, set the stage for discussion and future directions for the field. The collection of papers that resulted now offers a glimpse of the excitement and enthusiasm from DS-8.
Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on database systems, multimedia systems, or information retrieval systems and as a reference for practitioners and researchers in industry.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

    Zahir Tari

  • Carnegie Mellon University, USA

    Scott Stevens

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