Title :
Virgilio: a non-immersive VR system to browse multimedia databases
Author :
Massari, Antonio ; Saladini, Lorenzo ; Hemmje, Matthias ; Sisinni, Fabio
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Inf. e Sistemistica, Rome Univ., Italy
Abstract :
The authors introduce Virgilio, a system which supports the construction of non-immersive VR-based visualizations of complex data objects representing the result of a query performed on a multimedia database. Virgilio takes as input the dataset resulting from a query, on a generic database, displays attribute values of the dataset on virtual world objects according to the capability of these objects to represent the proper type of data, represents semantic relationships among the objects in the dataset using the containment relationship and creates a corresponding visual representation composed of a collection of virtual reality modeling language scenes
Keywords :
data visualisation; multimedia computing; query processing; virtual reality; Virgilio; attribute values; complex data objects; containment relationship; data set; generic database; multimedia database browsing; nonimmersive VR-based visualization; query; semantic relationships; virtual reality modeling language scenes; virtual world objects; visual representation; Electronic mail; Graphics; Information management; Information retrieval; Information systems; Layout; Multimedia databases; Space exploration; Virtual reality; Visual databases;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Computing and Systems '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5530-5
DOI :
10.1109/MMCS.1997.609771
