Combining database support for image understanding and model-supported exploitation

One of the primary functions of the research and development in image understanding systems (RADIUS) testbed is to support the development and use of image understanding (IU) technologies in a model-supported exploitation (MSE) workstation environment. This paper describes a suite of storage capabilities added to the RADIUS testbed as part of the foundation providing this support. We discuss the storage requirements of IU processes, and describe a database solution to satisfy them. We present our design, which addresses the issues of how to represent the data, what precisely to store and how to retrieve the stored data. This is followed by a critique of the design.