2000
@inproceedings{MPM2000,
vgclass = {fullconf},
vgproject = {cbir,viper},
author = {Wolfgang M\"{u}ller and Zoran Pe\u{c}enovi\'{c} and
Henning M\"{u}ller and St\'{e}phane Marchand-Maillet and
Thierry Pun and David McG. Squire and Arjen P. de~Vries and Christoph
Giess},
title = {{MRML}: An Extensible Communication Protocol for
Interoperability and Benchmarking of Multimedia Information Retrieval
Systems},
editor = {John R. Smith and Chinh Le and Sethuraman Panchanathan and
C.-C. Jay Kuo},
booktitle = {Internet Multimedia Management Systems},
address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
volume = {4210},
series = {SPIE Proceedings},
month = {November~6--7},
year = {2000},
note = {(IT 2000, SPIE Conference on Information Technologies)},
abstract = {While in the area of relational databases interoperability
is ensured by common communication protocols (e.g. ODBC/JDBC using
SQL), Content Based Image Retrieval Systems (CBIRS) and other
multimedia retrieval systems are lacking both a common query language
and a common communication protocol.
Besides its obvious short term convenience, interoperability of systems
is crucial for the exchange and analysis of user data. In this paper,
we present and describe an extensible XML-based query markup language,
called MRML (Multimedia Retrieval Markup Language). MRML is primarily
designed so as to ensure interoperability between different content
based multimedia retrieval systems. Further, MRML allows researchers to
preserve their freedom in extending their system as needed.
MRML encapsulates multimedia queries in a way that enables multimedia
(MM) query languages, MM content descriptions, MM query engines, and MM
user interfaces to grow independently from each other, reaching a
maximum of interoperability while ensuring a maximum of freedom for the
developer. For benefiting from this, only a few simple design
principles have to be respected when extending MRML for one's private
needs. The design of extensions within the MRML framework will be
described in detail in the paper.
MRML has been implemented and tested for the CBIRS Viper, using the
user interface SnakeCharmer. Both are under GNU Public License and can
be downloaded at http://viper.unige.ch/download/},
}