Real-world video-based applications require database technology that is capable of storing
digital video in the form of video databases and providing content-based video search and …

The most useful environments for advancing research and development in video databases
are those that provide complete video database management, including (1) video …

The increased use of video data sets for multimedia-based applications has created a
demand for strong video database support, including efficient methods for handling the …

Video is composed of audio-visual information. Providing content based access to video
data is essential for the sucessful integration of video into computers. Organizing video for …

A content-based video database system requires new technologies to fit the new
requirements and characteristics of videos. They include video modeling, query …

Video databases became an active field of research during the last years. Many universities
and research groups are building prototypes and the first commercial products are …

The area of content-based video retrieval is a very hot area both for research and for
commercial applications. In order to design effective video databases for applications such …

In this chapter we will discuss issues related to searching and browsing a shared video
database. The discussion will be founded on a review of characteristics of video information …

A prototype video database management system, which we call BilVideo, is presented.
BilVideo provides an integrated support for queries on spatio-temporal, semantic and low …

A future with widespread access to large digital libraries of video is nearing reality.
Anticipating this future, a great deal of research is focused on methods of browsing and …