1998
@inproceedings{DeB1998,
vgclass = {refpap},
vgproject = {cbir},
author = {Arjen P. de~Vries and Henk M. Blanken},
title = {Database technology and the management of multimedia data in Mirror},
editor = {C.-C. Jay Kuo and Shih-Fu Chang and Sethuraman
Panchanathan},
booktitle = {Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III (VV02)},
address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
volume = {3527},
series = {SPIE Proceedings},
pages = {443--453},
month = {November},
year = {1998},
note = {(SPIE Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications)},
url = {http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/\~{}arjen/mmdb/abstracts.html#spie98},
abstract = {Multimedia digital libraries require an open distributed
architecture instead of a monolithic database system. In the Mirror
project, we use the Monet extensible database kernel to manage
different representations of multimedia objects. To maintain
independence between content, meta-data, and the creation of meta-data,
we allow distribution of data and operations using CORBA. This open
architecture introduces new problems for data access. From an end
user's perspective, the problem is how to search the available
representations to fulfill an actual information need; the conceptual
gap between human perceptual processes and the meta-data is too large.
From a system's perspective, several representations of the data may
semantically overlap or be irrelevant. We address these problems with
an iterative query process and active user participation through
relevance feedback. A retrieval model based on inference networks
assists the user with query formulation. The integration of this model
into the database design has two advantages. First, the user can query
both the logical and the content structure of multimedia objects.
Second, the use of different data models in the logical and the
physical database design provides data independence and allows
algebraic query optimization. We illustrate query processing with a
music retrieval application.},
}