Summary of Research Project Results under JSPS FY2001 "Research for the Future Program"

In recent years, strong demand on sophisticated and integrated multimedia information processing systems has raised in many service areas including broadcasting, publishing, entertainment, and communications. The prime concern to build such systems is to establish very large multimedia database systems that will support the storing, sharing, and reuse of multimedia contents. In such database systems, besides the hardware and software infrastructures, the key issues are how to acquire multimedia data from the real world, how to store the obtained data into the databases and organize them, and how to create new and attractive multimedia contents from the stored data. The goals of this research project are to design a data model which is flexible enough to support the various user requests, to develop the system for the editing and processing of multimedia contents, and to build an architecture of very large multimedia database systems which are strong enough for the commercial use. In addition, the project emphasizes on finding new fields that can get benefits from our developed technologies.
As the results of this project, we developed the following: (1) an integrated system that involves the acquisition, editing and management of multimedia contents, (2) the content management method that supports the evolution of content's structure (i.e., handling the time aspect), (3) the content access architecture that supports the management of accesses, versioning, and broadcasting of multimedia contents, and finally, (4) the management systems for virtual and augmented reality spaces generated from the contents. We believe that the results of this project succeeded to opening and pioneering a new research field called "multimedia content processing". In fact, at the meeting where we demonstrated the final results of our project, the external referees gave high estimation to the project, mentioning that the results achieved in this project have significantly impacted on the community and industry, and will become next core technologies that will affect the developments of various infra-systems and applications.

1.Research Institution		Osaka University

2.Research Area		Physical and Engineering Sciences

3.Research Field		Intelligent Information and Advanced Information Processing

4.Term of Project		FY 1997 ～ FY 2001

5.Project Number		97P00501

6.Title of Project		Researches on Advanced Multimedia Content Processing

Name	Institution,Department	Title of Position
Shojiro, Nishio	Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering	Professor

Names	Institution,Department	Title of Position
Yasuo, Ariki	Ryukoku University, Faculty of Science and Technology	Professor
Fumio, Kishino	Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering	Professor
Katsumi, Tanaka	Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics	Professor

Summary of Research Project Results under JSPS FY2001"Research for the Future Program"

Summary of Research Project Results under JSPS FY2001
"Research for the Future Program"