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Vol: 49(63) No: 3 / September 2004 The Multimedia Interface of an Audio/Video/Smell Database System – AviSS Horea Todoran Department of Computer Science, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, str. E. de Martonne no. 1, 400090 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, phone: (40) 264 597587, e-mail: htodoran@euro.ubbcluj.ro Keywords: databases, multimedia databases, digital smell, multimedia user interface Abstract Non-audio-visual digital information becomes more and more meaningful to users in multimedia environments. The integration of smell, taste and touch in consistent multimedia applications very much depends on the capacity to digitally store data and send it over networks. Current multimedia database management systems do not consider the case of non-audio-visual data. We propose AViSS - a database management system that integrates smell with audio-visual information. It is the aim of this paper to discuss the main challenges arising from developing the multimedia interface of such a prototype. References REFERENCES [1] T. Vaughan, Multimedia: Making It Work, Fifth Edition, Osborne Media Group, 2001, Romanian edition by Teora, Bucharest, 2002. [2] I. Smeureanu and G. Drulă, Multimedia - concepts and practice, CISON Publishers, Bucharest, 1997 (in Romanian). [3] H. Todoran, The Road to Real Multimedia Databases – Emerging Multimedia Data Types, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Informatica, Vol. XLVII, No. 2, 2002. [4] P. Hauptmann, R. Borngraeber, J. Schroeder and J. Auge, Artificial Electronic Tongue in Comparison to the Electronic Nose – State of the Art and Trends, the IEEE/EIA International Frequency Control Symposium and Exhibition, 2000 [5] D. Harwood, Something in the Air, IEEE Review, January 2001. [6] W. Göpel, Ch. Ziegler, H. Breer, D. Schild, R. Apfelbach, J. Joerges and R. Malaka, Bioelectronic noses: a status report, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 13, No. 3-4, Elsevier Science S.A., 1998. [7] S. Khoshafian and B. Baker, Multimedia and Imaging Databases, Morgan Kuafmann Publ., USA, 1996. [8] W. Klas and K. Aberer, Multimedia Applications and Their Implications on Database Arhitecture, GMD Technical Report, Darmstadt, Germania, 1995. [9] T. C. Rakow, E. J. Neuhold and M. Löhr, Multimedia Database Systems – The Notions and the Issues, in G. Lausen, editor, Tagungsband GI-Fachtagung Datenbanksysteme in Büro, Technik und Wissenschaft (BTW, Informatik Aktuell, p. 1-29, Springer, March 1995. [10] C. Youngblut, et. al, Review of Virtual Environment Interface Technology, IDA Paper P-3186, produced by Institute for Defense Analyses, 1996. [11] D. Harel, L. Carmel and D. Lancet, Towards an Odor Communication System, Comput Biol. Chem. 2003 May; 27(2): 121-33. [12] *** - European Information Technology Observatory, EITO 99, 1999. [13] S. Forrest, P. Burrows, M. Thompson, Organic electronics, IEEE Spectrum, August 2000. [14] B. Johnstone, A Bright Future for Displays, Technology Review, MITs magazine of Innovation, April 2001. [15] *** - Digital Ink Meets Electronic Paper, The Economist Technology Quarterly Review, December 2000. [16] H. Jenkins, Electronic Paper Turns the Page, Technology Review, MITs magazine of Innovation, March 2001. [17] C. Slinger, C. Cameron, M. Stanley, Reconfigurable computer generated holograms for 3D image generation – challenges and solutions, OSA International Conference on Diffractive Optics and Micro-optics (DOMO 2000), Quebec, June 2000. [18] T. A. Nwodoh, S. A. Benton, Chidi holographic video system, SPIE Proceeding on Practical Holography, vol. 3956, January 2000. [19] N. A. Dodgson, J. R. Moore, S. R. Lang, G. Martin, P. Canepa, A 50 time-multiplexed autostereoscopic display, SPIE Proceedings of Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XI, vol 3957, January 2000. |