Multimedia Database Systems Design and Implementation Strategies

Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies is a compendium of the state-of-the-art research and development work pertaining to the problems and issues in the design and development of multimedia database systems. The chapters in the book are developed from presentations given at previous meetings of the International Workshop on Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems (IW-MMDBMS), and address the following issues:

• development of adequate multimedia database models,
• design of multimedia database query and retrieval languages,
• design of indexing and organization techniques,
• development of efficient and reliable storage models,
• development of efficient and dependable retrieval and delivery strategies, and
• development of flexible, adaptive, and reliable presentation techniques.

1 Multimedia DBMS — Reality Or Hype.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Video Services.- 3 Multimedia Database Management.- 4 Multimedia Integration.- 5 Query Language and Processing.- 6 Multimedia Storage Issues.- 7 Multimedia Retrieval and Indexing.- 8 Conclusion.- References.- 2 Database Approach for the Management of Multimedia Information.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Multimedia Data Management.- 3 Multimedia Databases.- 4 Introduction of Query Script.- 5 Query Script Processing.- 6 Query Script Scheduling.- 7 Conclusion.- References.- 3 STORM: An Object-Oriented Multimedia DBMS.- 1 Multimedia objects and temporal aspects.- 2 The STORM Multimedia Object-Oriented DBMS.- 3 Typing and building multimedia presentations.- 4 Querying Temporal Presentations.- 5 Conclusions.- References.- 4 Searching and Browsing a Shared Video Database.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Video Information in a Shared Environment.- 3 Frameworks for Video Databases.- 4 Fundamental Querying and Browsing Operations.- 5 An Experimental Video Archive Environment.- 6 Querying.- 7 Browsing and Presentation of Video Information.- 8 Experiences and Discussion.- References.- 5 A Visual Multimedia Query Language for Temporal Analysis of Video Data.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Annotation Model.- 3 Overview of our Approach.- 4 Specifying Relative Queries.- 5 The TVQL.- 6 Visual Enhancements to TVQL.- 7 Mapping TVQL To System Queries.- 8 Preliminary evaluation.- 9 Related Work.- 10 Conclusion, Current Status and Future Work.- References.- 6 A Multimedia Query Specification Language.- 1 Motivation.- 2 Related Work.- 3 Multimedia information content.- 4 Multisegment Specification Language.- 5 Summary.- References.- 7 Load-Balanced Data Placement for Variable-Rate Continuous Media Retrieval.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Background and Related Work.- 3Architecture of Continuous Media Storage System.- 4 Supporting Variable-Rate Retrieval.- 5 Performance Evaluation.- 6 Conclusions.- References.- An Object-Oriented Modeling of Multimedia Database Objects and Applications.- 1 Introduction — Issues in Multimedia Data Base Modelling.- 2 Multimedia Data Base Modelling.- 3 Storage and Indexing Issues.- 4 Multimedia Application Modelling.- 5 Standards for Multimedia/Hypermedia Documents.- 6 Multimedia Objects and Application Model (MOAP).- 7 Conclusions.- References.- 9 Synchronization and User Interaction in Distributed Multimedia Presentation Systems.- 1 Introduction.- 2 The Synchronization Problem.- 3 Predictive Synchronization Mechanisms.- 4 User Interaction.- 5 Related Work.- 6 Concluding Remarks.- References.- 10 Model for Interactive Retrieval of Videos and Still Images.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Facet-based Document Model.- 3 Parameterized Model for Information Retrieval Process.- 4 Instantiation of the Parameterized Model.- 5 Concluding Remarks.- References.- 11 MB+-Tree: An Index Structure for Content-Based Retrieval.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Similarity-Based Queries.- 3 The MB+-tree.- 4 Search Algorithms on MB+-Tree.- 5 Higher Dimensional MB+-tree.- 6 Discussion.- 7 Conclusion.- References.- 12 Playout Management in Multimedia Database Systems.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Playout Management.- 3 Playout Management for Multimedia Databases.- 4 The AMOS Approach.- 5 Playout Management in Distributed Multimedia Database Systems.- 6 A Highly Flexible RAPM-Scheme.- 7 Conclusion.- References.