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Group F. Multi-modal Issues, Systems and Applications. Mission Statement.
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Group F Multi-modal Issues, Systems and Applications NSF IDM 98, Group F
Mission Statement • Our mission is to develop the technology necessary to support fully-integrated multi-media database systems including many different types of data, such as text, images, signals, presentations, videos, audio clips, dynamic data, scientific data, and software. NSF IDM 98, Group F
The new technology will include • New data representations and storage schemes • To encode data in ways that facilitate retrieval and other operations • Full integration (fusion) of multimedia information • Combining different types of information from different sources • New types of queries, new definitions of “matching” • New ways of organizing, indexing, and retrieving data • New multimodal interfaces that allow users to interact with diverse data • Constructing multimedia documents • Data acquisition tools and systems • Mining of multimedia data NSF IDM 98, Group F
Research Directions: Most Important What are the most important problems to solve? Short term? Long term? • Features • Efficient algorithms and tools for manipulation and retrieval of compressed data. • New features and new extraction techniques for complex or nontraditional data types such as volumetric images, dynamic sequences, hyperspectral images. • Feature extraction in transformed domains. • Pose-invariant features. • Data analysis and Modeling • Content analysis of multimedia data • Feature extraction • Pattern recognition • Spatio-temporal analysis • Multi-level analysis • (Collaborative work with related disciplines) - Content modeling NSF IDM 98, Group F
Research Directions: Most Important (cont.) • Search and indexing • For multimedia documents • With multimedia queries* • For high-dimensional data • For nontraditional data • By similarity measures at multiple levels * Include text (NLP), images and signals (IP, SP), videos (VP), audio (SP), scientific data (visualization), source code. • Methods of evaluation • Benchmarks • Quality metrics • Query formulation • What kinds of queries • What kinds of user interfaces NSF IDM 98, Group F
Research Directions: Most Important (cont.) • Impact • Use of multimedia data in: • Interfaces for the handicapped • Improving k-12 education (the digital earth, the solar system, art…) • Distance learning • Electronic commerce • Multimedia patient records (he electronic patient) • Needs: • What research facilities are needed? (i.e. repositories, computing facilities, major infrastructure) • Standard test databases, ground truth • Images, outdoor scenes, video clips, indoor scenes, medical, remote sensing, faces. NSF IDM 98, Group F
Research Directions: Midterm Plans • Nontraditional Data types • 3D (volumetric data) • VR data • Animations • Interoperability • Establish a common language for content-based search. • Self-creating, self-maintaining databases • Accepts data of different multi-media types • Creates structures based on metaknowledge • Learns from sequences of user interactions NSF IDM 98, Group F
Research Directions: Not Our Emphasis • System concerns • Efficient storage of multimedia data • Optimization of multimedia queries • Time/quality tradeoffs for rapid access NSF IDM 98, Group F