It is no coincidence that we interact with the world primarily through visual means—light has many ideal properties for communication of information. These same properties make light ideal for data storage. The wavelength of visible light is small (on the order of 0.5 microns or about 1/7000 the height of a letter written in 10-point font), which indicates it can be used to read or write a larg...

In many areas of commerce, government, academia, hospitals, and homes, large collections of digital images are being created. However, in order to make use of it, the data should be organized for efficient searching and retrieval. An image retrieval system is a computer system for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images. Due to diversity in content and ...

Content-addressability is a fundamental feature of human memory underlying many associative information retrieval tasks. In contrast to location-based memory devices, content-addressable memories require complex interactions between memory elements, which makes conventional computation paradigms difficult. Here we present a molecular computational model of content-addressable information storag...

In this paper dance is used as an application area, as well as a metaphor for studying how to build digital multimedia libraries that comprise moving images accompanied by sound and other media. The use of protocol analysis is suggested as a knowledge acquisition method for eliciting verbal descriptions of dance. Such descriptions may be used to annotate dance videos to facilitate their storage...