Distributed Multimedia Indexing and Optimal Resources Utilization: AnImplementation Based on Metadata, Context and Usage
Mihaela Brut, Dana Codreanu, Ana-Maria Manzat, Florence Sedes
Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2011.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jmpt/fulltext/v2n4/3.pdf
Abstract:
Effective and flexible solutions for enabling reduced resources consumption and handling formats heterogeneityare essential in multimedia management systems. The reduction of the resources consumption for indexing can be achievedin two ways: by limiting the multimedia content transfer over the network, and by employing only the most appropriatealgorithms, only over the relevant content. Multiple formats are developed for the description of resources, contents andapplications, which are not necessary interoperable. A solution for coping with this heterogeneity is to create an integrativemodel for the description of any resources. We present in this paper the solution implemented in the context of the LINDOproject for indexing multimedia content within a distributed system. Such solution addresses these two points by reducing asmuch as possible the resources consumption through (1) a distributed indexing technique that avoids multimedia transfer;(2) a flexible mechanism for selecting the indexing algorithms to be employed on each remote server, according to themultimedia content characteristics, its acquisition context and user queries history. Our proposal is based on genericdescription models associated to multimedia content, indexing algorithms and servers.