Legal multimedia management through JPEG2000 framework

Abstract

In the judicial domain, the multimedia contents have become an important source of data, producing severe storage requirements. Nevertheless, there is no protocol establishing how to obtain and store these legal multimedia files. JPEG2000 is one of the latest standards developed by the JPEG committee. It is composed by 13 different parts addressing the encoding, transmission and manipulation of still images and video. In this work, we discuss the suitability of some parts of the standard to deal with legal multimedia contents. We also propose a centralized database scheme where all the multimedia contents are stored. Furthermore, taking advantage of the features provided by the JPEG2000 framework, these files could be compressed and transmitted over the network, ensuring the access control and the data integrity, among other security tools. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.