1. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning1 Video Database Systems Applications Introduction Education and Training Entertainment Commercial Industry and Manufacturing Digital Library Health and Medicine Communication Law Enforcement Conclusion

2. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning2 Introduction Video databases combines with multimedia and technologies. –Multimedia: pictures,audio,video, graphics, text –Technologies: networks, operating systems and so on The majority of industrial and academic efforts

3. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning3 Education and Training Application –distance learning –telecollaboration teleclassrooms –interactive training –self education –K-12 school education –employee reeducation

4. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning4 Education and Training (cont.) Compared with Traditional Training –roughly 40 percent more effective –retention rate is 30 percent greater –learning curve is 30 percent shorter Ongoing research projects (1997) –Electronic classrooms and the MUNIN / MultiTeam –Living Schoolbook

5. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning5 Education and Training (cont.) Advantages –Introduce cheap, quick, and efficient training of technological knowledge in a new area. (ex: Internet and WWW) –The use of distributed video database systems. Conclusion –Video-based training and education are totally new concepts. –structured relationships between industry and schools.

6. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning6 Entertainment Application –film clips database –Video_On_Demand (VOD) –pay-per view –interactive TV –in-flight entertainment (IFE) –video game database –sports video database –video dating services

7. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning7 Entertainment (cont.) Video-On-Demand (VOD) –the fastest-growing markets –big Companies worldwide Digital Silicon Graphics Oracle Micropolis Corporation –Airline Video_On_Demand ( AVOD ) is a part of MASC’s 2000EV in-flight entertainment system

8. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning8 Commercial Application –on-line shopping –on-line advertisements –stock video clip database Stock-Clips: the first full-motion video stock information service Advantage –browse and retrieve any product information in front of your PC at home without distant driving

9. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning9 Industry and Manufacturing Potential Application –Enterprise multimedia information management system –Company wide video broadcasting –Employee education and retraining The First product (in Sep,1995) –Oracle Media Server for Corporate Use –also included video conferencing and video mail

10. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning10 Digital Library Related Techniques –Inseparable with Video data –Video database management techniques Existing Application –The Vatican Library manuscripts and images –Indiana University’s Variations project music

11. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning11 Digital Library (cont.) National Digital Library Initiative –Direct effort establish a large, on-line digital video library allow for full-content and knowledge-base search and retrieval –Research effort Digital Video Library System (DVLS) project develop technologies for storing, indexing, searching, and retrieving video and audio information and sharing data across the Internet or the evolving National Information Infrastructure (NII)

12. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning12 Health and Medicine Application –multimedia medical information system manage the huge data files –patient images (such as x-rays and 3-D scans) –patient videos (such as surgical procedures) manage other text files (medical records) help the collaboration between hospitals and medical experts –telemedicine, telesurgery and telediagnoses

13. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning13 Health and Medicine (cont.) –practical example: TeleMed attractive to clinicians and diagnosticians valuable for teaching and presentation Advantage –improve the quality of health care enable doctors throughout the country to make use of the expertise of diagnostic experts : match a patient’s radiographic information with data  review treatment history and success  determine the best treatment –reduce the cost travel around  broadband T3 network  NII

14. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning14 Communication Application –Digital video broadcasting KOLD, Digital, Sun –Digital newsroom Sony and Oracle –Video conferencing recording and archiving Advantage –provides reliable, productive, and flexible full- motion imaging service

15. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning15 Law Enforcement Application –face or finger print database –crime scene video database –automatic access control –two efforts in this direction: FACEit (run on ordinary workstations with UNIX,X) –provide a powerful and user friendly face image database retrieval engine FaceIt (run on Silicon Graphics machines) –recognize faces from live video input

16. 1998/4/1by Chang I-Ning16 Conclusion Market driven –depends on how researchers and manufacturers work together and integrate it with other technologies In the initial stage and just started…. Now! A integral part of the NII or GII and a vast application market in the near Future Future works –At prices too high for customer –Only very limited user trial –Not touch many application areas –Lots of problems are waiting to be solved