Information access in multimedia databases based on feature models |
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Authors: | Arjen P De Vries Menzo Windhouwer Peter M G Apers Martin Kersten |
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Affiliation: | (1) CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands;(2) University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia
objects. Access to multimedia objects in databases has long been limited to the information provided in manually assigned
keywords. Now, with the integration of feature-detection algorithms in database systems software, content-based retrieval
can be fully integrated with query processing. We describe our experimentation platform under development, making database
technology available to multimedia. Our approach is based on the new notion of feature databases. Its architecture fully integrates
traditional query processing and content-based retrieval techniques.
Arjen P. de Vries, Ph.D.: He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Twente in 1999, on the integration of content management
in database systems. He is especially interested in the new requirements on the design of database systems to support content-based
retrieval in multimedia digital libraries. He has continued to work on multimedia database systems as a postdoc at the CWI
in Amsterdam as well as University of Twente.
Menzo Windhouwer: He received his MSc in Computer Science and Management from the University of Amsterdam in 1997. Currently he is working
in the CWI Database Research Group on his Ph.D., which is concerned with multimedia indexing and retrieval using feature grammars.
Peter M.G. Apers, Ph.D.: He is a full professor in the area of databases at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He obtained his MSc and Ph.D.
at the Free University, Amsterdam, and has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Stanford
University. His research interests are query optimization in parallel and distributed database systems to support new application
domains, such as multimedia applications and WWW. He has served on the program committees of major database conferences: VLDB,
SIGMOD, ICDE, EDBT. In 1996 he was the chairman of the EDBT PC. In 2001 he will, for the second time, be the chairman of the
European PC of the VLDB. Currently he is coordinating Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal, editor of Data & Knowledge Engineering,
and editor of Distributed and Parallel Databases.
Martin Kersten, Ph.D.: He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit in 1985 on research in database security, whereafter
he moved to CWI to establish the Database Research Group. Since 1994 he is professor at the University of Amsterdam. Currently
he is heading a department involving 60 researchers in areas covering BDMS architectures, datamining, multimedia information
systems, and quantum computing. In 1995 he co-founded Data Distilleries, specialized in data mining technology, and became
a non-executive board member of the software company Consultdata Nederland. He has published ca. 130 scientific papers and
is member of the editorial board of VLDB journal and Parallel and Distributed Systems. He acts as a reviewer for ESPRIT projects
and is a trustee of the VLDB Endowment board. |
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Keywords: | Information Access Multimedia Databases Query Processing Content-Based Retrieval |
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