Conventional database systems are designed for managing textual and numerical data, and
retrieving such data is often based on simple comparisons of text/numerical values …

Video retrieval is increasingly based on image content. A number of studies on video
retrieval have used low-level pixel content related to statistical moments, shape, colour and …

A framework for retrieving images by spatial similarity (FRISS) in ima ge databases is
presented. In this framework, a robust retrieval by spatial similarity (RSS) algorithm is …

Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing begins with the
introduction of multimedia information applications, the need for the development of the …

Large image databases have emerged in various applications in recent years. A prime
requisite of these databases is the means by which their contents can be indexed and …

Several salient-object-based data models have been proposed to model video data.
However, none of them addresses the development of an index structure to efficiently …

Combining both text-based retrieval and content-based retrieval techniques in building
multimedia databases is the ultimate goal of this work. We describe an object-oriented …

Dance video is one of the important types of narrative videos with semantic rich content. This
paper proposes a new meta model, Dance Video Content Model (DVCM) to represent the …

This paper presents a dance video content model (DVCM) to represent the semantics of the
dance videos at multiple granularity levels. The DVCM is designed based on the concepts …

Dance videos are interesting and semantics-intensive. At the same time, they are complex
type of videos, when compared to all other types such as sports, news and movie videos. In …