Intelligent Information Retrieval and Presentation with Multimedia Databases

The paper introduces a knowledge-based multimedia approach to multimedia information retrieval. The approach uses domain knowledge to augment a user' s query, performs automatic ontology mapping to search different multimedia databases, and combines the results in a multimedia presentation. The texts in the presentation are generated from the domain knowledge. Thus, the user can view a coherent multimedia presentation that contains the answer to his or her query. The paper describes an architecture for realizing the approach. The individual parts of the architecture have been implemented, but are not yet integrated in one system.