Image and Video Analysis

X-Database. A middleware for collaborative video annotation, storage and retrieval

8th Panhellenic Conference, Cyprus, November 2001.

Organising audiovisual content is a hard task for companies that own huge amounts of video information, such as television stations, studios, advertisement companies etc. The retrieval and re-use of useful information become unfeasible when the size of video information increases on a daily basis. The Panorama platform has been developed to cover such needs for manipulating video information, by attaching meta-information for both audio and visual content of video sources. This paper presents this meta-information model and the database interface developed in terms of the Panorama platform. The model works as keystone in the creation of the database and the database interface implements a mechanism for converting XML documents to relational data.

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