RAMAZAN S. AYGUN
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MODELING

Although computer vision and image processing techniques improved significantly, the subjective user evaluation of video and image data as well as unsatisfactory object recognition methods made it necessary incorporation of fuzzy, uncertain, and imprecise data in multimedia databases. The multimedia database systems have to enable information for an attribute at different levels of uncertainty and support querying with fuzzy and crisp values independent of how data is stored in the database. We have developed a conceptual database model for multimedia database applications using ExIFO2 data model and used Fuzzy Object Oriented Model (FOOD) as the logical model. This multimedia database is applied for videos of soccer games.

INDEXING

Spatio-temporal indexing is one of the challenging areas for querying high dimensional databases. We have introduced novel Semantic Sequence State Graph (S3G) for querying recurrent databases. In recurrent databases, there are a set of objects that repeatedly visit the same places. We have applied our technique for tennis video databases.

RETRIEVAL

We have developed iQuest (Intelligent Query Structuring System) to estimate the what the user is searching by analyzing the history of user's browsing. Such a system analyzes the semantic high-level concepts involved in the browsing history and builds the query accordingly. This is different from techniques that can apply similarity/distance measures for data that can be represented in numeric way.

R E L E V A N T  P U B L I C A T I O N S


  1. V. Bettaiah, R. Aygun. “Query-by-Gaming: Interactive Spatio-Temporal Querying and Retrieval Using Gaming Controller,” Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol 29, August 2015, pp. 63-76. doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2015.03.003
  2. M. Naik, M. Sigdel, and R. Aygun. “Spatio-Temporal Querying Recurrent Multimedia Databases Using a Semantic Sequence State Graph Multimedia Systems,” Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 263-281, June 2012
  3. Vineetha Bettaiah and Ramazan Aygun, “A User Interface for Spatio-Temporal ‘Eventually’ Queries using Gamepad,” Advances in Multimedia, 2011. MMEDIA '11. Third International Conference on , MMEDIA 2012, pp. 38-43, Budapest, Hungary, 17 April 2011
  4. Ramazan S. Aygün, Yi Ma, Kemal Akkaya, Glenn Cox and Ali Bicak. “A conceptual model for data management and distribution in peer-to-peer systems,” Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 294-322, 2010
  5. Tarun Yadav and Ramazan S. Aygun. “I-Quest : an Intelligent QUEry STructuring based on user browsing feedback for semantic retrieval”, Multimedia Tools Appl. 43, 2 (Jun. 2009), 145-178.
  6. Vani Jain and Ramazan S. Aygun. “Spatio-Temporal Querying of Video Content Using SQL for Quantizable Video Databases,” Journal of Multimedia, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 215-227, August 2009
  7. Aidong Zhang, Lei Zhu, Ramazan Aygun, Gholam Sheikholeslami, Yuqing Song. “Image Databases” in Handbook of Database Technologies, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, to appear in 2009
  8. Mitesh Naik, Vani Jain, and Ramazan Aygun. “S3G: A Semantic Sequence State Graph for Indexing Spatio-Temporal Data - a Tennis Video Database Application,” 2008 IEEE Int. Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 66-73, Santa Clara, CA, August, 2008
  9. Vani Jain and Ramazan Aygun, “SMART: A Grammar-Based Semantic Video Modeling and Representation,” Proceedings of IEEE SouthEastCon, Huntsville, AL, 2008
  10. Yi Ma and Ramazan Savas Aygun. Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Digital Library, 2005 IEEE 37th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory. March, 2005, pp. 130-134.
  11. Ramazan Savas Aygun and Adnan Yazici. "Modeling and Management of Fuzzy Information in Multimedia Database Applications", Multimedia Tools and Applications: An International Journal, Vol. 24(1), September 2004, pp. 29-56
  12. Aidong Zhang, Ramazan Savas Aygun, and Yuqing Song. "Feature-based retrieval in visual database systems", in Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management: Technological Fundamentals and Applications, Springer-Verlag, 2003
  13. S. Aygun, A. Yazici, and N. Arica, ``Conceptual Data Modeling of Multimedia Database Applications'', The proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multi-Media Database Management Systems, pp. 182-189, Dayton, Ohio, August 1998