Querying Multimedia Data Sources and Databases

  • Authors:
  • Shi-Kuo Chang;Gennaro Costagliola;Erland Jungert

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VISUAL '99 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Visual Information and Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

To support the retrieval and fusion of multimedia information from multiple sources and databases, a spatial/temporal query language called QL is proposed. QL is based upon the operator sequence and in practice expressible in SQL-like syntax. QL allows a user to specify powerful spatial/temporal queries for both multimedia data sources and multimedia databases, eliminating the need to write different queries for each. A QL query can be processed in the most effective manner by first selecting the suitable transformations of multimedia data to derive the multimedia static schema, and then processing the query with respect to this multimedia static schema.