Talk: August 10, 1999 An Impressionist Monet Exhibit for Multimedia
Lila Finhill
is pleased to present a talk:
An Impressionist Monet Exhibit for Multimedia Index Services on the Web
Professor Martin Kersten
CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
m...@cwi.nl, ker...@db.stanford.edu
Tuesday, August 10, 1999
ICSI, Rm 607
1:30-3:00 pm
Abstract:
Monet is an extensible database kernel under development since 1993 at
CWI. It is amongst the first full-fledged implementations designed from
the premises that main-memory considerations should drive the
architecture. That is, all but the largest databases are memory
resident. This system forms the basis of a large national project to
develop technology to index multi-media web sources.
In this talk I will give a short overview of its architecture and
modelling technique to encapsulate proprietary and open-source
multi-media feature extractions. The key innovation is to regard
multi-media indexing as an enlarged parsing problem, which can
convientely be described with a context-free grammar. A small toolkit
based on traditional compiler-compiler technology then forms the bridge
to store the index information in the Monet database, while the grammar
itself provides the namespace to query it.
This talk will be held in the Main Lecture Hall at ICSI.
1947 Center Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704-1198
(On Center between Milvia and Martin Luther King Jr. Way)
[http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/location.html]
If you are interested in checking the availability of papers regarding
this talk, please contact the speaker (whose e-mail address is included
within this announcement).