With the advances in information technology, the amount of multimedia data captured,
produced, and stored is increasing rapidly. As a consequence, multimedia content is widely …

The BilVideo video database management system provides integrated support for
spatiotemporal and semantic queries for video. A knowledge base, consisting of a fact base …

In recent years, very large collections of images and videos have grown rapidly. In parallel
with this growth, content-based retrieval and querying the indexed collections are required …

Labeling objects in images is an essential prerequisite for many visual learning and
recognition applications that depend on training data, such as image retrieval, object …

In different types of information systems, such as multimedia information systems and
geographic information systems, object-based information is represented via polygons …

Considering the fact that most of the multimedia database systems include querying by
object features, a novel approach for color and shape querying and retrieval is proposed …

The growing prevalence of multimedia systems is bringing the need for efficient techniques
for storing and retrieving images into and from a database. In order to satisfy the information …

Advances in compression techniques, decreasing cost of storage, and high-speed
transmission have facilitated the way video is created, stored and distributed. As a …

Content-Based Image Retrieval systems can often return poor results when attempting to
match images with extraneous feature information such as complex backgrounds, shadows …

We develop a Web-based video database management system, named BilVideo, providing
an integrated support for both spatio-temporal and semantic (keyword, event/activity and …