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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-013-10-1411</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">28862</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>E.1 - DATA STRUCTURES</subject>
          <subject>E.5 - FILES</subject>
          <subject>H.3.1 - Content Analysis and Indexing</subject>
          <subject>H.3.3 - Information Search and Retrieval</subject>
          <subject>M.9 - KNOWLEDGE VALUATION</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Efficient Access Methods for Temporal Interval Queries of Video Metadata</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Sioutas</surname>
            <given-names>Spyros</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">sioutas@ionio.gr</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Tsichlas</surname>
            <given-names>Kostas</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Vassiliadis</surname>
            <given-names>Bill</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Tsolis</surname>
            <given-names>Dimitrios K.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A4">4</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Ionian University, , Greece</addr-line>
        <institution>Ionian University</institution>
        <country>Greece</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece</addr-line>
        <institution>Aristotle University of Thessaloniki</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Thessaloniki</addr-line>
        <country>Greece</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece</addr-line>
        <institution>Hellenic Open University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Patras</addr-line>
        <country>Greece</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A4">
        <label>4</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Patras, Patras, Greece</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Patras</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Patras</addr-line>
        <country>Greece</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Spyros Sioutas (<email xlink:type="simple">sioutas@ionio.gr</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2007</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2007</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>13</volume>
      <issue>10</issue>
      <fpage>1411</fpage>
      <lpage>1433</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/0000FED8-B063-51EF-8CA4-C42C5BD022AD">0000FED8-B063-51EF-8CA4-C42C5BD022AD</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/6999950">6999950</uri>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Spyros Sioutas, Kostas Tsichlas, Bill Vassiliadis, Dimitrios K. Tsolis</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Indexing video content is one of the most important problems in video databases. In this paper we present linear time and space algorithms for handling video metadata that represent objects or events present in various frames of the video sequence. To accomplish this, we make a straightforward reduction of this problem to the intersection problem in Computational Geometry. Our first result is an improvement over the one of V. S. Subrahmanian [Subramanian, 1998] by a logarithmic factor in storage. This is achieved by using different basic data structures. Then, we present two other interesting time-efficient approaches. Finally a reduction to a special geometric problem is considered according to which we can achieve two optimal in time and space solutions in main and external memory model of computation respectively. We also present an extended experimental evaluation.</p>
      </abstract>
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