TY  - CONF
ID  - MPM2000
T1  - {MRML}: An Extensible Communication Protocol for Interoperability and Benchmarking of Multimedia Information Retrieval Systems
A1  - Müller, Wolfgang
A1  - Pecenovic, Zoran
A1  - Müller, Henning
A1  - Marchand-Maillet, Stéphane
A1  - Pun, Thierry
A1  - Squire, David McG.
A1  - Vries, Arjen P. De
A1  - Giess, Christoph
TI  - SPIE Photonics East - Voice, Video, and Data Communications
Y1  - 2000
VL  - 4210
SP  - 961
EP  - 968
AD  - Boston, MA, USA
KW  - communication protocol
KW  - Content-based image retrieval
KW  - image retrieval
KW  - MRML
N2  - While in the area of relational databases interoperability is ensured by common communication protocols (e.g. ODBC/JDBC using SQL), Content Based Image Retrieval Systems (CBIRS) and other multimedia retrieval systems are lacking both a common query language and a common communication protocol. Besides its obvious short term convenience, interoperability of systems is crucial for the exchange and analysis of user data. In this paper, we present and describe an extensible XML-based query markup language, called MRML (Multimedia Retrieval Markup Language). MRML is primarily designed so as to ensure interoperability between different content based multimedia retrieval systems. Further, MRML allows researchers to preserve their freedom in extending their system as needed. MRML encapsulates multimedia queries in a way that enables multimedia (MM) query languages, MM content descriptions, MM query engines, and MM user interfaces to grow independently from each other, reaching a maximum of interoperability while ensuring a maximum of freedom for the developer. For benefiting from this, only a few simple design principles have to be respected when extending MRML for one's private needs. The design of extensions within the MRML framework will be described in detail in the paper. MRML has been implemented and tested for the CBIRS Viper, using the user interface SnakeCharmer. Both are under GNU Public License and can be downloaded at http://viper.unige.ch/download/
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