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Until recently, databases contained easily indexed numbers and text. Today, in the age of powerful, graphically based computers, and the world wide web, databases are likely to contain a much greater variety of data forms, including images, sound, video clips, and even handwritten documents. When multimedia databases are the norm, traditional methods of working with databases no longer apply.

How do you query a video library, or an image database containing x-rays, or sounds in an audio database? Principles of Multimedia Database Systems explains how to work with these new multimedia data forms. It is the first comprehensive treatment of the skills and techniques required to build, maintain, and query multimedia databases.

This book presents the mix of techniques necessary for working with multimedia databases, including synthetic solutions for the design and deployment of multimedia database systems. Because rapid technological developments are constantly changing the landscape of multimedia databases, the book teaches basic theoretical principles applicable to any database.

Content Highlights


  • Covers the major issues of multimedia database design, with a strong focus on distributed multimedia databases.

  • Discusses important topics including how to organize the vast data types, storage and retrieval, and creation and delivery of multimedia presentations.

  • Organized around the lively scenario of a crime-fighting database that evolves as new concepts are introduced.

  • Includes numerous exercises and suggestions for programming projects.

  • Additional materials on the web include updates, on-line supplements, and links to downloadable software.

Until recently, databases contained easily indexed numbers and text. Today, in the age of powerful, graphically based computers, and the world wide web, databases are likely to contain a much greater variety of data forms, including images, sound, video clips, and even handwritten documents. When multimedia databases are the norm, traditional methods of working with databases no longer apply.

How do you query a video library, or an image database containing x-rays, or sounds in an audio database? Principles of Multimedia Database Systems explains how to work with these new multimedia data forms. It is the first comprehensive treatment of the skills and techniques required to build, maintain, and query multimedia databases.

This book presents the mix of techniques necessary for working with multimedia databases, including synthetic solutions for the design and deployment of multimedia database systems. Because rapid technological developments are constantly changing the landscape of multimedia databases, the book teaches basic theoretical principles applicable to any database. Covers the major issues of multimedia database design, with a strong focus on distributed multimedia databases. Discusses important topics including how to organize the vast data types, storage and retrieval, and creation and delivery of multimedia presentations. Organized around the lively scenario of a crime-fighting database that evolves as new concepts are introduced. Includes numerous exercises and suggestions for programming projects. Additional materials on the web include updates, on-line supplements, and links to downloadable software

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Building on the premise that the creation of multimedia databases requires a mix of techniques from many disparate fields in computer science, Subrahmanian (computer science, U. of Maryland) presents a synthetic view of the end-to-end design of a multimedia database management system. He aims to teach students how to build multimedia databases that support the querying, storage, retrieval and delivery of distributed media data. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Table of Contents

Preface
Color Plates following page 202
Pt. 1 Preliminaries 1
1 Introduction 3
2 A Quick Overview of Relational Databases 19
3 A Quick Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases 37
Pt. II Organizing Multimedia Content 63
4 Multidimensional Data Structures 65
5 Image Databases 99
6 Text/Document Databases 147
7 Video Databases 179
8 Audio Databases 215
9 Multimedia Databases 227
Pt. III Physical Storage and Retrieval 265
10 Retrieving Multimedia Data from Disks 267
11 Retrieving Multimedia Data from CD-ROMs 295
12 Retrieving Multimedia Data from Tapes 311
Part IV Creating and Delivering Networked Multimedia Presentations 329
13 Creating Distributed Multimedia Presentations 331
14 Distributed Media Servers 363
15 Future Directions 389
A Term Projects 397
A.1 Individual Project: Image Databases 397
A.2 Individual Project: Video Databases 400
A.3 Individual Project: Multimedia Database with Uniform Representation 403
A.4 Group Project: Heterogeneous Multimedia Content Project 404
A.5 Individual Project: A Disk Server Simulator 405
A.6 Individual Project: A CD-ROM Server for VCR Functions Simulator 408
A.7 Individual Project: A Tape Server for VCR Functions Simulator 409
A.8 Group Project: A Heterogeneous Storage Manager Project 411
A.9 Individual Project: A Multimedia Presentation Engine 411
Bibliography 413
Index 433
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