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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 23 No. 1, pp. 1-19


Video Algebra for Spatio-Temporal Reasoning of Iconic Videos Represented in 3D C-string


Anthony J. T. Lee, Ping Yu, Han-Pang Chiu and Hsiu-Hui Lin
Department of Information Management 
National Taiwan University 
Taipei, 106 Taiwan 
*Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.


    The video content management has attracted increasing attention in recent years. We have proposed a new spatio-temporal knowledge structure, called 3D C-string, to represent the spatio-temporal relations between the objects in a video and to keep track of the motions and size changes of the objects. In this paper, we propose a video algebra to infer the spatio-temporal relations between the objects in a video represented by the 3D C-string. The algebra contains four kinds of rules, namely, transitive, distributive, manipulation, and integration rules. By using those rules, all the binary relations between the objects in a video can be derived from a given 3D C-string. The algebra provides the theoretic basis for spatio-temporal reasoning and video query inference.


Keywords: video algebra, spatio-temporal relation, 3D C-string, video database, spatiotemporal reasoning

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