Implementation of VRSE over multimedia framework

Technology advances and application development in the area of multimedia information systems have been rapidly increasing in recent years. An important issue to be considered in the design of a multimedia information system is the content-based retrieval of multimedia data, which helps users to retrieve the desired information based on the contents of multimedia data. In such systems, multimedia data are analyzed so that the descriptions of their content, i.e., metadata, can be extracted and stored in the multimedia database together with the original raw data. The multi-mode indexing scheme combines and extends the HG-tree, the signature file, and the hashing technique to support a wide range of user queries in a multimedia information system. We describe a new Visual Retrieval System Engine (VRSE) that goes with a visual database running with multimedia collaborative framework.