Modeling Images for Content-Based Queries: The DISIMA Approach

The DISIMA project aims at building an image database system enabling content-based querying. The model, the architecture and a query language have been defined. The prototype is being implemented on top of the ObjectStore DBMS. DISIMA proposes a model for both image and spatial applications. The DISIMA model allows the user to assign different semantics to an image component (semantic independence) and an image representation can be changed without any effect on applications using it (representation independence). The architecture involves different image sources including WWW-servers and file systems. This paper presents the project overview.

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