Issues in Designing Contemporary Video Database Systems.
Oge Marques, Borko Furht · 1999
Video databases became an active field of research during the last years. Many universities and research groups are building prototypes and the first commercial products are becoming available. This paper surveys some of the most important open issues that should be taken into account when designing a contemporary video database system. Index Terms Video databases, Multimedia database systems, Video indexing and retrieval, Digital libraries. 1. Introduction The field of distributed multimedia systems has experienced increasing research and development efforts during the last decade. One of the main goals envisioned by multimedia researchers is the creation of huge digital libraries accessible to users worldwide. These large and complex multimedia databases must store all types of multimedia data, e.g. text, images, animations, graphs, drawings, audio, and video clips. Video information plays a central role in such systems and therefore the design and implementation of video datab...