The primary objective of this project was to design and develop a distributed image DBMS, which, on the one hand, provides mechanisms and techniques for efficient image compression, fast image transmission, and flexibility in content-based querying of images; and, on the other hand, provides a convenient and uniform interface for global users to access image data from multiple, disparate source repositories. More specifically, the following objectives were established at the outset:
While the project addressed all of these objectives to a certain extent, the
focus was on the database aspects of image management (objectives 1 and 2) rather
than the image processing issues (objectives 3 and 4).
For more information about this project, please see our final
project report (which is also available in pdf
format). You can run the DISIMA system
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University of Waterloo |
Computer Science |
M.T. Özsu |