| Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing begins with the introduction of multimedia information applications, the need for the development of the multimedia database management systems (MDBMSs), and the important issues and challenges of multimedia systems. The temporal relations, the spatial relations, the spatio-temporal relations, and several semantic models for multimedia information systems are also introduced. In addition, this book discusses recent advances in multimedia database searching and multimedia database browsing. More specifically, issues such as image/video segmentation, motion detection, object tracking, object recognition, knowledge-based event modeling, content-based retrieval, and key frame selections are presented for the first time in a single book. Two case studies consisting of two semantic models are included in the book to illustrate how to use semantic models to design multimedia information systems. Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing is an excellent reference and can be used in advanced level courses for researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers, students, and general readers who are interested in the issues, challenges, and ideas underlying the current practice of multimedia presentation, multimedia database searching, and multimedia browsing in multimedia information systems.
The objective of this book is to provide a survey of different models and to cover state of the art techniques for multimedia presentations, multimedia database searching, and multimedia browsing. Therefore, the readers can have an understanding of the issues and challenges of multimedia information systems. As more information sources become available in multimedia systems, the development of the abstract models for video, audio, text, and image data becomes very important. The pros and cons of the different models for multimedia information designs are discussed in this book. In addition, this book will cover most of the recent works that were published on the prestigious Journals and Conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Multimedia System Journal, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, IEEE Multimedia, ACM SIGMOD and so on.
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