When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

As digital video databases become more and more pervasive, finding video in large
databases becomes a major problem. Because of the nature of video (streamed objects) …

Video retrieval is increasingly based on image content. A number of studies on video
retrieval have used low-level pixel content related to statistical moments, shape, colour and …

Storage and retrieval of multimedia has become a requirement for many contemporary
information systems. These systems need to provide browsing, querying, navigation, and …

Geographic Information Systems mainly tend to be two dimensional, thus limiting the
applications. As GIS are being developed, researchers and practioners are finding new …

Much research has been carried out in order to manage structured documents such aa
SGML documents and to provide powerful query facilities which exploit document structures …

A multimedia system needs a mechanism to communicate with its environment, the Internet,
clients, and applications. MPEG-7 provides a standard metadata format for global …

In order to obtain highly dispersed heteropolyacid species, H3PW12O40 (HPA) was
supported on various silica-based supports. Three lamellar silicates were used: a natural …

In this paper, we present the current state of the art in semantic data modeling of multimedia
data. Semantic conceptualization can be performed at several levels of information …

ABSTRACT A popular method for producing video summaries is to use cut detection to
select representative key-frames for shots in a movie. The key-thrnes are then used as the …