Formalism for content-based retrieval multimedia systems

Abstract

It is recognized that developing a formalism for content-based multimedia systems is essential to develop sufficiently reliable and mission critical applications. This paper tries to formalize the whole paradigm of content-based multimedia retrieval. The formalism will provide a generic criterion for the system evaluation, and methods to customize the system engine to applications. It is believed that this formalism adds semantics to multimedia systems and leads the database technology from tool level into application level.