BilVideo: Design and implementation of a video database management system

Date
2005
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Multimedia Tools and Applications
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1573-7721
1380-7501
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Springer
Volume
27
Issue
1
Pages
79 - 104
Language
English
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Article
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With the advances in information technology, the amount of multimedia data captured, produced, and stored is increasing rapidly. As a consequence, multimedia content is widely used for many applications in today's world, and hence, a need for organizing this data, and accessing it from repositories with vast amount of information has been a driving stimulus both commercially and academically. In compliance with this inevitable trend, first image and especially later video database management systems have attracted a great deal of attention, since traditional database systems are designed to deal with alphanumeric information only, thereby not being suitable for multimedia data. In this paper, a prototype video database management system, which we call BilVideo, is introduced. The system architecture of BilVideo is original in that it provides full support for spatio-temporal queries that contain any combination of spatial, temporal, object-appearance, external-predicate, trajectory-projection, and similarity-based object-trajectory conditions by a rule-based system built on a knowledge-base, while utilizing an object-relational database to respond to semantic (keyword, event/activity, and category-based), color, shape, and texture queries. The parts of BilVideo (Fact-Extractor, Video-Annotator, its Web-based visual query interface, and its SQL-like textual query language) are presented, as well. Moreover, our query processing strategy is also briefly explained. © 2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.

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Content-based retrieval, Information systems, Multimedia databases, Spatio-temporal query processing, Spatiotemporal relations, Video databases, Video query languages, Information theory, Query languages, Textures, Multimedia databases, Spatiotemporal relations, Video database management, Video query languages, Database systems
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