UMQL: A Unified Multimedia Query Language

Author

Cao, Zhongsheng ; Wu, Zongda ; Wang, Yuanzhen

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2007

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

115

Abstract

We propose a unified multimedia query language called UMQL, based on a semi-structured data model. In contrast to previous multimedia query languages that are either designed only for one particular medium or not powerful enough on multimedia query ability, UMQL is a general and powerful multimedia language which can support effectively queries based on content, structure, spatial relationships and temporal relationships of multimedia data, and finally has been shown to be very expressive and quite suitable for multimedia information retrieval.

Keywords

data models; multimedia databases; query languages; query processing; UMQL; multimedia data; multimedia information retrieval; semistructured data model; spatial relationship; temporal relationship; unified multimedia query language; Data models; Database languages; Functional programming; Image databases; Information retrieval; Internet; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Software libraries; Spatial databases; Multimedia Information Retrieval; Multimedia Query Language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal-Image Technologies and Internet-Based System, 2007. SITIS '07. Third International IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3122-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SITIS.2007.95

Filename

4618765