Video and Image Semantics: Advanced Tools for Telecommunications
Alex Pentland, Rosalind W. Picard, Glorianna Davenport, Ken Haase · 1994
Within the next decade, the majority of data carried over telecommunications links is likely to be visual material. The biggest problem in delivering video and image services is that the technology for organizing, searching, and presenting images is still in its infancy. Consequently we are developing tools for building and browsing multimedia databases, and for using these databases to automatically create multimedia presentations. This paper describes our demonstration system, which gathers and presents video over standard ISDN telephone lines. Keywords: Image and Video Database, Multimedia Presentation, Image Compression, Database Annotation, Image and Video Semantics. 1 Introduction Within the next decade, the majority of data carried over telecommunications links is likely to be visual material. The biggest problem in delivering video and image services is that the technology for organizing, searching, and presenting images is still in its infancy. Consequently, the process of as...