DATA MODEL AND ARCHITECTURE OF MULTIMEDIA DATABASE FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

This papaer presents a data model and the database system architecture to handle multimedia data, especially video (or image sequence) data. A new scheme ''AIS diagram'' is introduced, by which all informations about entities and relationships among bitmap frames or textual informations are described in a uniform way. We focus on the integration of engineering data. The most important problem to be solved is how to capture the ''objects'' in each frame and to represent them in the data model. For this purpose we propose ''physical cut'' and ''logical cut'' as a unit of information in image sequences and, using those concepts, we developed a prototype system for multimedia data processing on a conventional database system.