Querying distributed multimedia databases and data sources for sensor data fusion

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 687-702

  Chang, Shi Kuo ^a   Costagliola, Gennaro ^b   Jungert, Erland ^c   Orciuoli, Francesco ^b  

^a Learning Research and Development Ctr   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Distributed database; Multimedia database; Query language; Query processing; Sensor data fusion

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DATA TRANSFER; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

DATA FUSION; DISTRIBUTED DATABASES; MULTIMEDIA DATABASES; QUERY PROCESSING;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 3843138689     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2004.834862     Document Type: Article

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