Indexing Images in Oracle8i Melliyal Annamalai, Rajiv Chopra, and Samuel DeFazio   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Industrial Sessions Abstract Content-based retrieval of images is the ability to retrieve images that are similar to a query image. Oracle8i Visual Information Retrieval provides this facility based on technology licensed from Virage, Inc. This product is built on top of Oracle8i interMedia which enables storage, retrieval and management of images, audios and videos. Images are matched using attributes such as color, texture and structure and efficient content-based retrieval is provided using indexes of an image index type. The design of the index type is based on a multi-level filtering algorithm. The filters reduce the search space so that the expensive comparison algorithm operates on a small subset of the data. Bitmap indexes are used to evaluate the first filter resulting in a design which performs well and is scalable. The image index type is built using Oracle8i extensible indexing technology, allowing users to create, use, and drop instances of this index type as they would any other standard index. In this paper we present an overview of the product, the design of the image index type, and some performance results of our product. References Note: References link to DBLP on the Web. [Ang95] Yew H. Ang , Z. Li , Sim-Heng Ong : Image Retrieval Based on Multidimensional Feature Properties. Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases (SPIE) 1995 : 47-57 [Bac96] Jeffrey R. Bach , Charles Fuller , Amarnath Gupta , Arun Hampapur , Bradley Horowitz , Rich Humphrey , Ramesh Jain , Chiao-Fe Shu : Virage Image Search Engine: An Open Framework for Image Management. Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases (SPIE) 1996 : 76-87 [Ber98] Stefan Berchtold , Christian Böhm , Hans-Peter Kriegel : The Pyramid-Tree: Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality. SIGMOD Conference 1998 : 142-153 [Boz97] Tolga Bozkaya , Z. Meral Özsoyoglu : Distance-Based Indexing for High-Dimensional Metric Spaces. SIGMOD Conference 1997 : 357-368 [Fal94] Christos Faloutsos , Ron Barber , Myron Flickner , Jim Hafner , Wayne Niblack , Dragutin Petkovic , William Equitz : Efficient and Effective Querying by Image Content. JIIS 3(3/4) : 231-262(1994) [Fli95] Myron Flickner , Harpreet S. Sawhney , Jonathan Ashley , Qian Huang , Byron Dom , Monika Gorkani , Jim Hafner , Denis Lee , Dragutin Petkovic , David Steele , Peter Yanker : Query by Image and Video Content: The QBIC System. IEEE Computer 28(9) : 23-32(1995) [GJ97] Amarnath Gupta , Ramesh Jain : Visual Information Retrieval. CACM 40(5) : 70-79(1997) [Ovr97] ... [Ora98b] ... [Ora98a] ... [Ora98c] ... [Whi96] David A. White , Ramesh Jain : Similarity Indexing with the SS-tree. ICDE 1996 : 516-523 BIBTEX @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/AnnamalaiCD00,   author    = {Melliyal Annamalai and                 Rajiv Chopra and                 Samuel DeFazio},    editor    = {Weidong Chen and                 Jeffrey F. Naughton and                 Philip A. Bernstein},    title     = {Indexing Images in Oracle8i},    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on                 Management of Data, May 16-18, 2000, Dallas, Texas, USA},    journal   = {SIGMOD Record},    publisher = {ACM},    volume    = {29},    number    = {2},    year      = {2000},    isbn      = {1-58113-218-2},    pages     = {539-547},    crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/2000},    bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } }, DiSC'01 Copyright ©2002 ACM Inc.