GMQL: A graphical multimedia query language

  • Authors:

  • Zongda Wu;Guandong Xu;Yanchun Zhang;Zhongsheng Cao;Guiling Li;Zhiwen Hu

  • Affiliations:

  • Oujiang College, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, Zhejiang, China;School of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, P.O. Box 14428, Vic 8001, Australia;School of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, P.O. Box 14428, Vic 8001, Australia;College of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;College of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;Oujiang College, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, Zhejiang, China

  • Venue:
  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The rapid increase of multimedia data makes multimedia query more and more important. To better satisfy users' query requirements, developing a functional multimedia query language is becoming a promising and interesting task. In this paper, we propose a graphical multimedia query language called GMQL, which is developed based on a semi-structured data organization model. In GMQL, we combine the advantages of graphs and texts, making the query language much clear, easy to use and with powerful expressiveness. In this paper, we first present the notations and basic capabilities of GMQL by query examples. Second, we discuss the GMQL query processing techniques. Last, we evaluate and analyze our multimedia query language through the comparison with other existing multimedia query languages. The evaluation results show that, GMQL has powerful expressiveness, and thus is much applicable for multimedia information retrieval.