- Christine Lichti, C. Faloutsos, H. Wactlar, Michael G. Christel, Alexander Hauptmann. 1998. Informedia: Lessons from a Terabyte+, Operational, Digital Video Database System. Abstract: We describe the design decisions and lessons learned from Informedia, a digital video database system developed at Carnegie Mellon University and currently hosting over one terabyte of video data. Informedia is a research prototype for video retrieval by content, as well as a production system. The system has been implemented on a relational database, and it currently achieves less than five-second response times for ad hoc queries by video content on mid-range Pentium ® workstations.
