Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) Project
Thomas S. Huang, Sharad Mehrotra, Kannan Ramchandran · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1996
To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, wehave started a Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval Systems #MARS# project at the University of Illinois. The project brings together researchers interested in the #elds of computer vision, compression, information management and database systems with the singular goal of developing an e#ectivemultimedia database management system. As a #rst step towards the project, wehave designed and implemented an image retrieval system. This paper describes the novel approaches towards image segmentation, representation, browsing, and retrieval supported by the developed system. Also described are the directions of future research we are pursuing as part of the MARS project. Keywords: multimedia systems, content-based retrieval, image database, segmentation, information retrieval, wavelet based compression. # This work was supported in part by the NSF#DARPA#NASA Digital Library Initiative Pr...