The SMOOTH Multimedia Database Project

Institute of Information Technolgy at Univ. Klagenfurt

Participating Researcher and Students

Alexander Bachlechner , László Böszörményi , Bernhard Dörflinger , Christian Hanin, Christian Hofbauer , Harald Kosch , Margit Lang , Ines Neumayr , Reinhold Paulitsch , Carmen Riedler , and Roland Tusch

Description of the Smooth Project (VLDB 2001 Demonstration Paper)

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Abstract

It implements an integrated querying, annotating, and naviagating framework relying on a generic video indexing model (see Reference ). The framework allows the structuring of videos into logical and physical units, and the annotation of these units by typed semantic objects. An index-database stores these structural and semantic information. We provide further a clear concept for capturing and querying the semantic content of multimedia objects, their correlation with low-level objects, as well as their spatio-temporal relationships.

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Simplified Example of the Query Interface

The following example query :

'Find all video shots, where the player Lothar Matthäus scores a goal after a pass over 30 meters'

can be specified by using two condition sets, the first one on Person and the second one on Event (left side of the figure). On the right side you see the two matching videos which have been selected in an intermediate dialog window (not shown).


 

References

  1. Roland Tusch, Harald Kosch, László Böszörményi : VIDEX: An Integrated Generic Indexing Approach . Proceedings of the 8th ACM Multimedia Conference 2000, Los Angeles (USA), October-November 2000, ACM Press, pp. 448-451.
  2. Harald Kosch, László Böszörményi, Roland Tusch, Alexander Bachlechner, Bernhard Dörflinger, Christian Hofbauer,  and Carmen Riedler : The SMOOTH Video DB - Demonstration of an Integrated Generic Indexing Approach . Proceedings of the 8th ACM Multimedia Conference 2000, Los Angeles (USA), October-November 2000, ACM Press, pp. 495-496.
  3. Harald Kosch, László Böszörményi, Alexander Bachlechner, Bernhard Dörflinger, Christian Hanin, Christian Hofbauer, Margit Lang, Carmen Riedler, and Roland Tusch : SMOOTH - A Distributed Multimedia Database System, VLDB'2001 in Rome (Italy), pp. 713-714.


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