3D Content-Based Visualization of Databases

The scope of this paper is to propose an innovative interactive system for 3D visualization of multimedia databases. In such databases, the digital content is accompanied by complementary information and metadata that describe the content. The proposed 3D visualization environment is able to provide multiscale representations driven by appropriate clustering processes that exploit content descriptions. It is also able to provide direct access to all the digital content, both in terms of physical access to the multimedia files as well as in terms of searching and retrieving information.