Description

Great advances have been made in the database field. Relational and object- oriented databases, distributed and client/server databases, and large-scale data warehousing are among the more notable. However, none of these advances promises to have as great and direct an effect on the daily lives of ordinary citizens as video databases. Video databases will provide a quantum jump in our ability to deal with visual data, and in allowing people to access and manipulate visual information in ways hitherto thought impossible.

Video Database Systems: Issues, Products and Applications gives practical information on academic research issues, commercial products that have already been developed, and the applications of the future driving this research and development. This book can also be considered a reference text for those entering the field of video or multimedia databases, as well as a reference for practitioners who want to identify the kinds of products needed in order to utilize video databases.

Video Database Systems: Issues, Products and Applications covers concepts, products and applications. It is written at a level which is less detailed than that normally found in textbooks but more in-depth than that normally written in trade press or professional reference books. Thus, it seeks to serve both an academic and industrial audience by providing a single source of information about the research issues in the field, and the state-of-the-art of practice.

From the Foreword

The goal of this book is to provide the state-of-the-art view of video database technology and to serve the need of a broad range of readers, including students, programmers, developers, and researchers who wish to design and build video-based applications. The book goes beyond pontification of open issues. The authors cover many important topics and take a pragmatic approach in terms of presenting techniques for processing, storing, accessing, and distributing of video information.

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A unique feature of this book is that it is also a guide to a large number of the state-of-the-art commercial products available for video data processing and management.

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Overall, the book---with its highly informative style---is a succinct source of information for video database technology.

Arif Ghafoor
Purdue University
November, 1996

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION

2. RESEARCH ISSUES

• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Video Data Modeling
• 2.3 Video Scene Analysis and Video Segment
• 2.4 Video Data Indexing and Organization
• 2.5 Video Data Query and Retrieval

3. OTHER RELATED RESEARCH ISSUES

• 3.1 Video Data Compression
• 3.2 Media Server Design and File System Support
• 3.3 Network Support for the Video Applications
• 3.4 Copyright Protection

4. PRODUCTS

• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Video Board
• 4.3 Video Storage System
• 4.4 Video Server System

5. APPLICATIONS

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Education and Training
• 5.3 Entertainment
• 5.4 Commercial
• 5.5 Industry and Manufacturing
• 5.6 Digital Library
• 5.7 Health and Medicine
• 5.8 Communication
• 5.9 Law Enforcement
• 5.10 Conclusion

6. CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIX: USEFUL URLS

• Background and Overviews
• Research Issues
• Other Research Issues
• Market and Commercial Products
• Video Database Applications

REFERENCES

INDEX