
Multimedia Database Management Systems
Guojun Lu(Author)
Artech House Publishers
Published on 30. September 1999
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-89006-342-2 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive, systematic approach to multimedia database management systems. It presents methods for managing the increasing demands of multimedia databases and their inherent design and architecture issues, and covers how to create an effective multimedia database by integrating the various information indexing and retrieval methods available. It also addresses how to measure multimedia database performance that is based on similarity to queries and routinely affected by human judgement. The book concludes with a discussion of networking and operating system support for multimedia databases and a look at research and development in this dynamic field.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Norwood
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89006-342-2 (9780890063422)
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Person
Guojun Lu is currently senior lecturer at the Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology at Monash University in Churchill, Australia. Previously, he was a lecturer at Deakin University and a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. Lu received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Loughborough University of Technology in England, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Nanjing Institute of Technology in China.
Content
Introduction. Multimedia Data Types and Formats. Multimedia Database Design Issues. Text Document Indexing and Retrieval. Indexing and Retrieval of Audio. Image Indexing and Retrieval. Video Indexing and Retrieval. Integrated Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval. Techniques and Data Structures for Efficient Multimedia Similarity Search. System Support for Distributed Multimedia Databases. Measurement of Multimedia Information Retrieval Effectiveness. Products, Applications, and New Developments.