Modeling Images for Content-Based Queries: The DISIMA Approach

The DISIMA project aims at building a complete image database system enabling content-based querying. The model, the architecture and a query language have been defined. The prototype is being implemented on top of the ObjectStore DBMS. DISIMA proposes a model for both image and spatial applications. The DISIMA model allows the user to assign different semantics to an image component (semantic independence) and an image representation can be changed without any effect on applications using it (representation independence). The architecture involves different image sources including WWW-servers and file systems. This paper presents the project overview. 1. Introduction Computers have been primarily used for the management and manipulation of alpha-numeric data. In the last twenty years, database management system (DBMS) technology has matured and started to play a central role in the management of this type of data. The widening use of multimedia information systems has increased the ne..