IRIT - UMR 5505

LINDO is an ITEA 2-06011 project. It started on 1st november 2007 and will end on 31st october 2010.

Partners

• France: CEA LIST, Quotium (Hi-Stor), IRIT (Toulouse University), SupElec, SGT, Thales Security Systems;
• Belgium: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Space Applications Services;
• Spain: DENODO, Infoglobal, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarolla (TI+D).

Head

• Florence Sèdes

Participants

• Mihaela Brut
• Dana Codreanu
• Sébastien Laborie
• Ana-Maria Manzat

Problematics

The necessity for handling high resolution multimedia contents, created from multi-source distributed systems, has raised new problems in the field of indexation and information access:

• distributed storage,
• distributed processing of information,
• descriptors generation,
• meta-data formats,
• real time information retrieval, geolocalisation of documents in mobile or pervasive contexts, etc.

In this context, the transfer of the pertinent contents, from their storage place, has become a real bottleneck, especially with regard to the performance of information access.

The LINDO European project aims to develop a generic architecture, in which not only the storage of multimedia documents is distributed, but also the indexation is distributed on different storage units, that are possibly heterogeneous, geographically distant, of various capacities ... Rather than moving the content to the processing units, a possibility would be to send and execute the relevant indexing routines on remote sites. Only the strict relevant information that matches a query must be transferred to a user, dealing with the problem of media’s granularity and format of the answer.

The aim of the project is not to define yet another model or indexing engine but rather to encapsulate in the generic architecture the existing engines. In this context, standards for used interfaces and different metadata formats handled will be proposed.

The validation of the results will be done in real conditions with demonstrations in the Video-surveillance and Multimedia archives domains.

Specification and application of a generic indexing algorithm description model

During the Master’s degree of Dana Codreanu, we have proposed a generic indexing algorithm description model. The following figure illustrates an overview of its structure.

You can download some instances of this model at the following url: http://www.irit.fr/ Sebastien.Laborie/LINDO/listingAlgos.php. The Master’s Thesis is also available hereafter (in french).

Towards a generic metadata framework

We have proposed a generic metadata framework that defines an abstract representation of a multimedia document and encapsulates the most common metadata standards (e.g., Dublin Core, Exif, MPEG-7, MXF...). The following figure illustrates an overview of its structure.

You can download the XML Schema of our generic metadata format and some examples of its instantiation.

Publications (IRIT)

• Sébastien Laborie, Dana Codreanu and Florence Sèdes. Spécification et utilisation d’un modèle de description d’algorithmes d’indexation. In VSST’2010 : Veille Stratégique Scientifique & Technologique, Toulouse, October 25th-29th 2010.
• Sébastien Laborie, Ana-Maria Manzat and Florence Sèdes. A Generic Framework for the Integration of Heterogeneous Metadata Standards into a Multimedia Information Retrieval System. In Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information (RIAO 2010), Paris, April 28th-30th 2010.
• Sébastien Laborie, Ana-Maria Manzat and Florence Sèdes. Managing and querying efficiently distributed semantic multimedia metadata collections. In IEEE MultiMedia Special Issue on Multimedia-Metadata and Semantic Management, 16(4):12-20, 2009.
• Mihaela Brut, Sébastien Laborie, Ana-Maria Manzat and Florence Sèdes. A Generic Metadata Framework for the Indexation and the Management of Distributed Multimedia Contents. In Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2009), IEEE Computer Society, Cairo (Egypt), December 20th- 23rd 2009.
• Mihaela Brut, Sébastien Laborie, Ana-Maria Manzat and Florence Sèdes. Integrating Heterogeneous Metadata into a Distributed Multimedia Information System. In Cognitive Systems with interactive sensors (COGIS 2009), Paris.
• Mihaela Brut, Sébastien Laborie, Ana-Maria Manzat and Florence Sèdes. A Framework for Automatizing and Optimizing the Selection of Indexing Algorithms. In Proc. of the Third International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2009), Fabio Sartori, Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Nikos Manouselis (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, CCIS 46, p. 48-59, Milan, September 30th - October 2nd 2009.
• Sébastien Laborie, Ana-Maria Manzat and Florence Sèdes. Création et utilisation d’un résumé de métadonnées pour interroger efficacement des collections multimédias distribuées. In Actes du 27ème Congrès Informatique des Organisations et Systèmes d’Information et de Décision (INFORSID 2009), IRIT Press, pages 227-242, Toulouse, May 26th -29th 2009.
• Mihaela Brut, Florence Sèdes and Ana-Maria Manzat. A Web Services Orchestration Solution for Semantic Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval. In Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Frontiers in Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (FCISIS-2009), organized in conjunction with The Third International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2009), IEEE Computer Society, pages 1187-1192, Fukuoka (Japan), March 2009.

Official Website

• http://www.lindo-itea.eu/

Contact

• Florence Sèdes: Florence.Sedes@irit.fr