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Advancing Multimedia Database Technology
W. Aref, A.C. Catlin, A.
Elmagarmid, J. Fan, J. Guo, M. Hammad, I.F. Ilyas, M.S. Marzouk, S. Prabhakar,
A. Rezgui, E. Terzi, Y. Tu, A. Vakali, X.Q. Zhu. A distributed database server
for continuous media. In ICDE'02 Proceedings of the 18th Internationl Conference
on Data Engineering. Feb.26-Mar.1, 2002. San Jose, California. pp.
490-491.
W. Aref, A.C. Catlin, A.
Elmagarmid, J. Fan, M. Hammad, I.F. Ilyas, M.S. Marzouk, X.Q. Zhu. A Video
Database Management System for Advanding Video Database Research. In MIS'02
Proceedings of the Internationl Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems.
Oct.30-Nov.1, 2002. Phoenix, Arizona. To appear.
X.Q. Zhu, J. Fan, W. Aref,
A.C. Catlin, A. Elmagarmid. Medical Video Mining for Efficient Database
Indexing, Management and Access. In ICDE'03 Proceedings of the 19th Internationl
Conference on Data Engineering. March 5-8, 2003. Bangalore, India. To
appear.
I. F. Ilyas, W. Aref, A.
Elmagarmid. Joining ranked inputs in practice. In VLDB'02 Proceedings of the
28th VLDB Conference Hong Kong, China. 2002. To appear.
M. Hammad, W. Aref, A.
Elmagarmid. Search-based buffer management policies for streaming in continuous
media. In ICME'02 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia
and Expo. Lausanne, Switzerland. August 26-29, 2002. To appear.
X. Zhu, J. Fan, W. Aref,
and A. Elmagarmid. ClassMiner: Mining medical video content structure and
events towards efficient access and scalable skimming. In Proceedings of the
SIGMOD Workshop on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Madison, WI.
June, 2002. To appear.
I. Ilyas and W. Aref. SP-GiST: An
Extensible Database Index for Supporting Space Partitioning Trees. Journal of
Intelligent Systems (JIIS). 17(2-3). pp. 215-235. 2001.
X. Q. Zhu, J. Fan, and A.
Elmagarmid. Hierarchical Video Content Description and Summarization using
Joint Semantci and Visual Similarity. ACM Multimedia Systems. To appear.
W. Aref, A.C. Catlin, A.
Elmagarmid, J. Fan, M. Hammad, I.F. Ilyas, M.S. Marzouk, X.Q. Zhu. Search and
discovery in digitial video libraries. CSD TR #02-005. February 2002.
M. Hammad, W. Aref, A. Elmagarmid. Joining Multiple Data Streams with Window
Constraints. CSD TR #02-008. May 2002.
W. Aref, K. El-Bassyouni, I.
Kammel, and M. Mokbel. Scalable QoS- Aware Disk Scheduling. In IDEAS-02
Proceedings of the International Database Engineering and Applications
Symposium. Alberta, Canada. July, 2002. To appear.
W. Aref. ACM-GIS 2001. In
Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic
Information Systems. Atlanta, GA. Novenber 9-10, 2001. To appear.
M. Mokbel and W. Aref. Irregularity
in Multi-Dimensional Space-Filling Curves with Applications in Multimedia
Databases. In Proceedings of the Conference on Information and Knowledge
Managemenet. CIKM 2001. pp. 512-519.
I. Ilyas and W. Aref. An Extensible
Index for Spatial Databases. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference
on Statistical and Scientific Databases. Virginia. July 2001.
M. Hammad, W. Aref, A. C. Catlin, M. Elfeky, and A. Elmagarmid. A Stream
Database Server for Sensor Applications. CSD TR #02-009. May 2002.
J. Fan and A. Elmagarmid.
Semi-automatic algorithm for video object extraction and temporal tracking. Signal
Processing: Image Communication. Vol. 17. 2002. To appear.
W. Aref, A.C. Catlin, A.
Elmagarmid, J. Fan, M. Hammad, I.F. Ilyas, M.S. Marzouk, X.Q. Zhu. Search and
discovery in digitial video libraries. Submitted for publication. 2002.
W. Aref, M. Elfeky, and A.
Elmagarmid. Incremental, online and merge mining of partial periodic patterns
in time-series databases. IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
2002. To appear.
X. Zhu, A. Elmagarmid and A. C.
Catlin. InsightVideo: Toward hierarchical content organization for efficient
browsing, summarization and retrieval. Submitted for publication. 2002.
W. Aref, I. Kamel, and S.
Ghandeharizadeh. Disk Scheduling in video editing systems. IEEE Trans. on
Knowledge and Data Engineering. 13(6). pp. 933-950. November/December
2001.
J. Fan, W. Aref, A. Elmagarmid,
M-S. Hacid, M. Marzouk, and X. Zhu. MultiView: Multi-level video content
representation and retrieval. Journal of Electrical Imaging. 10(4). pp.
895-908. October, 2001.
J. Fan, M-S. Hacid and A.
Elmagarmid. Model-based video classification for hierarchical video access. Multimedia
Tools and Applications. Vol. 15. October, 2001.
E. Bertino, A. Elmagarmid and M-S.
Hacid. Quality of service in multimedia digital libraries. SIGMOD Record.,
30(1), pp. 35-40, March 2001.
J. Fan, W. Aref,M-S. Hacid and A.
Elmagarmid. An improved isotropic color edge detection technique. Pattern
Recognition Letters. pp. 1419-1429, 2001.
J. Fan, D. Yau, A. Elmagarmid, and
W. Aref. Automatic image segmentation by integrating color edge detection and
seeded region growing. IEEE Trans. On Image Processing. 10(10).
pp.1454-1466. 2001.
A. Bertino, M. A. Hammad, W. Aref
and A. Elmagarmid. An access control model for video database systems. In Proc.
CIKM Ninth International Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management.
pp. 336-343. November, 2000.
H. Jiang, D. Montesi, and A.
Elmagarmid. Integrated video and text for content-based access to video
databases. Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications. 9(3). Kluwer
Academic Press. November, 1999.
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