The Handbook of Multimedia Information Management
Published on 7. May 1997
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-13-207325-7 (ISBN)
Description
Increasingly, organizations are faced with managing extremely large collections of multimedia information, including audio, image and video. This book provides an up-to-date overview of the new database technologies being developed to meet this important new requirement. It covers the fundamental principles underlying the new generation of multimedia databases, and describes how such databases can be designed. Presents several working prototypes. It also reviews information retrieval techniques, multimedia interfaces, memory management, high-speed multimedia, and issues surrounding networked multimedia databases.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Upper Saddle River
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
922 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-207325-7 (9780132073257)
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Content
Preface. Introduction, William Grosky, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, Ramesh Jain, University of California at San Diego, and Rajiv Mehrotra, Eastman-Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. DATA MODELING. 1. Modeling Time-Based Media, Simon Gibbs, Christian Breiteneder and Dennis Tsichritzis, GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany. 2. Document Model Issues for Hypermedia, Lynda Hardman and Dick C.A. Bulterman, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Information Retrieval Techniques. 3. Content-Based Indexing and Retrieval, H.V. Jagadish, AT&T Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey. 4. Video and Image Content Representation and Retrieval, Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, New York, and Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University, Tempe. 5. Video Segmentation for Video Data Management, Nilesh V. Patel and Ishwar Sethi, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES. 6. Visual Interfaces to Multimedia Databases, S.K. Chang, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and M.F. Costabile, UniversitaA di Bari, Italy. 7. Multimedia Interfaces-Multimedia Content Indication, Yoshinobu Tonomura, NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan. MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION. 8. Composite Models, R. Hamakawa and A. Atarashi, NEC, Kanagawa, Japan. MEMORY MANAGEMENT. 9. Memory Management: Codecs, Bhaskaran Vasudev, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, and Wei Li, FutureTel, Inc., Sunnyvale, California. 10. Design of Large-Scale Multimedia-on-Demand Storage Servers and Storage Hierarchies, Milind M. Buddhikot, Guru M. Parulkar, Srihari Sampath Kumar, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and P. Venkat Rangan, University of California at San Diego. MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS. 11. Multimedia Communications-Synchronization, Shahab Baqai, M. Farrukh Khan, and Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS. 12. Image Database Prototypes, Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK. 13. Video Database Systems-Recent Trends in Research and Development Activities, Eitetsu Oomoto, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan, and Katsumi Tanaka, Kobe University, Japan. 14. Third-Generation Distributed Hypermedia Systems, John F. Buford and Lloyd Rutledge, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. About the Contributors. Index.