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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf18401</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2007.190</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Generic Multimedia Database Architecture Based upon Semantic Libraries</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Abdul Hamid</surname><given-names>Omara</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:omara@jinnah.edu.pk">omara@jinnah.edu.pk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Abdul Qadir</surname><given-names>Muhammad</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:aqadir@jinnah.edu.pk">aqadir@jinnah.edu.pk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Iftikhar</surname><given-names>Nadeem</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:nadeem@jinnah.edu.pk">nadeem@jinnah.edu.pk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Ur Rehman</surname><given-names>Mohib</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:mohib@jinnah.edu.pk">mohib@jinnah.edu.pk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Uddin Ahmed</surname><given-names>Mobin</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:mobin@jinnah.edu.pk">mobin@jinnah.edu.pk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Ihsan</surname><given-names>Imran</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:imran@jinnah.edu.pk">imran@jinnah.edu.pk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Center for Distributed and Semantic Computing, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Jinnah Avenue, Blue Area, Islamabad, Pakistan</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2007</year></pub-date><volume>18</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>483</fpage><lpage>510</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>06</month><year>2006</year></date></history><abstract><p>Semantic-based storage and retrieval of multimedia data requires accurate annotation of the data. Annotation can be done either manually or automatically. The retrieval performance of the manual annotation based approaches is quite good, as compared to approaches based on automatic annotation. However, manual annotation is time consuming and labor extensive. Therefore, it is quite difficult to apply this technique on huge volume of multimedia data. On the other hand, automatic annotation is commonly used to annotate the multimedia data based on low level features, which obviously lacks the semantic nature of the multimedia data. Yet, we have not come across with any such system which automatically annotate the multimedia data based on the extracted semantics accurately. In this paper, we have performed automatic annotation of the images by extracting their semantics (high level features) with the help of semantic libraries. Semantic libraries use semantic graphs. Each graph consists of related concepts along with their relationships. We have also demonstrated with the help of a case study that our proposed approach ensures an improvement in the semantic based retrieval of multimedia data.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>automatic annotation</kwd><kwd>content-based image retrieval</kwd><kwd>multimedia database architecture</kwd><kwd>image abstract extraction</kwd><kwd>semantic libraries</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>