VideoMAP*: a Web-based architecture for a spatio-temporal video database management system

The authors present a Web based architecture of a spatio-temporal video data management system, which can accommodate a wide range of activities by various types of users. Besides the support of basic concurrency control for video editing by multiple users, the system provides various kinds of profiles containing knowledge information and activity models which are useful for annotating abstracted information into video data and for processing video queries. We also describe the user interface facilities from the perspective of sample user interactions. This system is being built based on our earlier work of developing a comprehensive video data management system using extended object oriented concepts and techniques.