A Model for Indexing Videos and Still Images from the Moroccan Cultural Heritage

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a flexible (meta) model for indexing videos, applied to the Moroccan cultural heritage. The model is rather generic, able to describe documentaries, advertisements, movies, and other video types. Our goal is to develop a tool for navigating into a joint database of video and related images, based both on visual contents and manual annotations. We describe mainly the video database schema, the corresponding relational implementation, and our video indexing prototype. The connection with an image sub-database is shortly described. An interesting aspect of our model is its flexibility, which is due, on the one hand, to a parametrised hierarchical decomposition of video types and, on the other hand, to the variety of metadata that can be linked to each decomposition element, though in a controlled way