Semantic abstractions in the multimedia domain

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 136-160

  Megalou, Elina ^a   Hadzilacos, Thanasis ^a  

^a University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Multimedia data model; Multimedia query language; Presentational unit; Semantic modeling; Semantic multimedia abstraction; Spatio temporal retrieval

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; XML;

SEMANTIC ABSTRACTION;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037251264     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2003.1161587     Document Type: Article

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