Designing for Semantic Access: A Video Browsing System

  • Authors:
  • Hollfelder Silvia;André Everts;Ulrich Thiel

  • Affiliations:
  • GMD—Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI), Dolivostr. 15, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany. hollfeld@darmstadt.gmd.de;GMD—Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI), Dolivostr. 15, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany. everts@darmstadt.gmd.de;GMD—Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI), Dolivostr. 15, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany. thiel@darmstadt.gmd.de

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Users of browsing applications often have vague information needs which can only be described in conceptual terms. Therefore, a video browsing system must accept conceptual queries for preselection and offer mechanisms for interactive inspection of the result set by the user. In this paper, we describe a MM-DBMS that we extended with the following components: Our retrieval engine calculates relevance values for the results of a conceptual query by feature aggregation on video shot granularity to offer conceptual, content-based access. To reduce startup delays within sessions, our admission control module admits only complete browsing sessions, if required resources, which are heuristically predicted from query results, are available. In addition, our intelligent client buffer strategy employs the retrieval relevance values to enable flexible user interactions during browsing.