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Constrained Querying of Multimedia Databases

Vitter, Jeffrey Scott
Natsev, Apostol
Smith, John R.
Chang, Yuan-Chi
Li, Chung-Sheng
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This paper investigates the problem of high-level querying of multimedia data by imposing arbitrary domain-specific constraints among multimedia objects. We argue that the current structured query mode, and the query-by-content model, are insufficient for many important applications, and we propose an alternative query framework that unifies and extends the previous two models. The proposed framework is based on the querying-by-concept paradigm, where the query is expressed simply in terms of concepts, regardless of the complexity of the underlying multimedia search engines. The query-by-concept paradigm was previously illustrated by the CAMEL system. The present paper builds upon and extends that work by adding arbitrary constraints and multiple levels of hierarchy in the concept representation model. We consider queries simply as descriptions of virtual data set, and that allows us to use the same unifying concept representation for query specification, as well as for data annotation purposes. We also identify some key issues and challenges presented by the new framework, and we outline possible approaches for overcoming them. In particular, we study the problems of concept representation, extraction, refinement, storage, and matching.
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Copyright 2001 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic electronic or print reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.410976
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2001-01
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SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering
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Constraints, Concepts, Camel, Content-based query, Images, Mpeg-7, Multimedia
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Apostol Natsev, John R. Smith, Yuan-Chi Chang, Chung-Sheng Li and Jeffrey S. Vitter, "Constrained querying of multimedia databases: issues and approaches", Proc. SPIE 4315, 74 (2001). http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.410976
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