In a digital library system, documents are available in digital form and therefore are more easily copied and their copyrights are more easily violated. This is a very serious pro...
We present a new statistical compression method, which we call Phrase Based Dense Code (PBDC), aimed at compressing large digital libraries. PBDC compresses the text collection to ...
The field of information retrieval has witnessed over 50 years of research on retrieval methods for metadata descriptions and controlled indexing languages, the prototypical exam...
This paper presents icon abacus, a space-efficient technique for displaying document attributes by automatic positioning of document icons. It displays the value of an attribute b...
We describe XVIP, an XML-based video information processing system, which extracts information from video and stores the information in a multimedia digital video library. XVIP en...
Edith C. H. Ngai, Pat Pik-Wah Chan, Edward Yau, Mi...