Virgilio: a non-immersive VR system to browse multimedia databases

Author

Massari, Antonio ; Saladini, Lorenzo ; Hemmje, Matthias ; Sisinni, Fabio

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Inf. e Sistemistica, Rome Univ., Italy

fYear

1997

fDate

3-6 Jun 1997

Firstpage

573

Lastpage

580

Abstract

The authors introduce Virgilio, a system which supports the construction of non-immersive VR-based visualizations of complex data objects representing the result of a query performed on a multimedia database. Virgilio takes as input the dataset resulting from a query, on a generic database, displays attribute values of the dataset on virtual world objects according to the capability of these objects to represent the proper type of data, represents semantic relationships among the objects in the dataset using the containment relationship and creates a corresponding visual representation composed of a collection of virtual reality modeling language scenes

Keywords

data visualisation; multimedia computing; query processing; virtual reality; Virgilio; attribute values; complex data objects; containment relationship; data set; generic database; multimedia database browsing; nonimmersive VR-based visualization; query; semantic relationships; virtual reality modeling language scenes; virtual world objects; visual representation; Electronic mail; Graphics; Information management; Information retrieval; Information systems; Layout; Multimedia databases; Space exploration; Virtual reality; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1997.609771

Filename

609771