The 2002 International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE'2002)
Title: Data
Processing and Retrieval in Multimedia Database Systems
Short Description:
A multimedia database system integrates text, images, audio, graphics, and
video in the application environments. As more information sources become available in multimedia systems,
the need for efficient modeling, browsing, searching, and retrieving information,
especially for continue media, such as video and data, increases.
In traditional database management systems (DBMSs), such as relational database
systems, only textual and numerical data is stored and managed in the database
and there is no need to consider the synchronicity among media. Retrieving data is often based on simple
comparisons of text or numerical values, which is no longer adequate for the
multimedia data. The purpose of the
design and development of a multimedia database management system (MDBMS) is to
efficiently organize, store, manage, and retrieve multimedia information from
the underlying multimedia databases.
The issues and topics introduced in this tutorial include content-based image
retrieval (CBIR), video processing, synchronization models, and multimedia
query support, retrieval, and browsing, which are active research areas in
multimedia database systems today.
Required Background and Target Audience:
Background in computer or Information
systems. This tutorial is aimed at the general attendants
who are interested in the issues, challenges, and ideas underlying the current
practice of multimedia information systems. It will also be of interest to university researchers, scientists,
industry professionals, software engineers, graduate students, and undergraduate
students who need to become acquainted with this new multimedia technology, and
to all those who wish to gain a technical understanding of what multimedia information
systems involve.
Tutorial Duration : 2-3 Hours.
Method of Presentation: Transparencies and overhead projector. Tutorial notes will be made available.
Presenter: Dr.
Shu-Ching Chen
School of Computer Science
Florida International University
Miami, Florida, USA
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Shu-Ching Chen received his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA in December
1998. He also received Masters degrees
in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Civil Engineering from Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN. He has
been an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, Florida
International University (FIU) since August 1999. Before joining FIU, he worked as a R&D software engineer for
the Database Engine Design group at Micro Data Base Systems (MDBS), Inc., IN, USA.
Currently, he is the Director of Distributed
Multimedia Information System Laboratory at FIU. His main research interests include distributed multimedia
database systems and information systems, information retrieval, object-oriented
database systems, data mining, and distributed computing environments for
intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Dr. Chen has authored and co-authored more than 50 research papers
in journals and refereed conference proceedings such as IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE ICME, ACM Multimedia, ACM MDM/KDD, IEEE
ICDE, IEEE ICTAI, VLDB, ACM CIKM, IEEE COMPSAC, ACM GIS, etc. He is one of the co-authors of a book
entitled ``Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing'' by Kluwer
Academic Publishers in September 2000. He
is the Program Co-chair of the 10th ACM International Symposium on Advances in
Geographic Information Systems, 2002. He
was the Program Co-chair of the 2nd International Conference on Information
Reuse and Integration (IRI-2000).