Introduction An important service offered by an information access system is the organization of retrieval results. Conventional systems rank results based on an automatic assessment of relevance to the query [20]. Alternatives include graphical displays of interdocument similarity (e.g., [1, 22, 7

Modeling video data poses a great challenge since they do not have as clear an underlying structure as traditional databases do. We propose

explicit definition of all possible valid configurations for a given context. We pose the problem of determining the validity of visual data as a process of constructing a puzzle: We try to compose a new observed image region or a new video segment (“the query”) using chunks of data (“pieces of puzzle

The World-Wide Web (WWW) is an ever growing, distributed, non-administered, global information resource. It resides on the worldwide computer network and allows access to heterogeneous information: text, image, video, sound and graphic data. Currently, this wealth of information is difficult

Previous work in video annotation and analysis has concentrated more on the process of annotation than analysis. The focus of our research instead is to provide support for video analysis by developing an environment for the "casual user" to query the video data using spatio

, probabilistic graphical networks, ROC curves, semantic video indexing, query

evaluation engine with the capabilities of query resolution in different content-specific formats (e.g., by graphics, by image, by sound) and in different domain-specific models (e.g., database of movies, database of newsclips) should be present. Additionally, the digital video database will require

Multiresolution Applications in Computer Graphics: Curves, Images, and Video by Adam Finkelstein Chairperson of Supervisory Committee: Assistant Professor David H. Salesin Computer Science and Engineering This dissertation presents some new representations and algorithms for multiresolution curves

We describe a visual information system prototype for searching for images and videos on the WorldWide Web. New visual information in the form of images, graphics, animations and videos is being published on the Web at an incredible rate. However, cataloging this visual data is beyond

Two graphical user interfaces to a Video-on-Demand system are described. Each interface allows a user to compose and submit queries to a metadata database for execution, thus helping the user find video data. The first interface is a full-function WYSIWYG interface implemented in Tcl/Tk. The second