Principles of Multimedia Database Systems
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
468 pages
978-1-55860-466-7 (ISBN)
Description
Multimedia Database Systems (MDBs) facilitate the access, manipulation, and communication of information across high-speed electronic and phone networks. This text defines and explains the technology for the key functions that MDBs must support. It includes important topics including how to organize data types, storage and retrieval, and creation and delivery of multimedia presentations.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations (some col.)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
799 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55860-466-7 (9781558604667)
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Content
Preface Part I: PRELIMINARIES Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Plan of the Book 1.2 Sample Multimedia Scenario 1.3 Other Applications Chapter 2 A Quick Overview of Relational Databases 2.1 Relational Algebra 2.2 Relational Calculus Chapter 3 A Quick Introduction to Object Oriented Databases 3.1 Objects and Values 3.2 Types and Classes 3.3 Methods 3.4 Object Definition and Query Languages 3.5 Object-Relational Systems Part II: ORGANIZING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT Chapter 4 Other Relevant Data Structures 4.1 k-D Treas 4.2 Point Quadtrees 4.3 The MX-Quadtree 4.4 R-Trees Chapter 5 Image Databases 5.1 What is Querying by Image Content 5.2 Representing Image DBs with Relations 5.3 Representing Image DBs using Image Transformations 5.4 Similarity Based Retrieval 5.5 Image Processing: Segmentation 5.6 Retrieving Images by Spatial Layout 5.7 Implementations Chapter 6 Text/Document Databases 6.1 Precision and Recall 6.2 Stop Lists, Word Stems, and Frequency Tables 6.3 Latent Semantic Indexing: The Basic Idea 6.4 LSI: Background on Singular Valued Decompositions 6.5 LSI: Document Retrieval using SVDs 6.6 TV-Trees 6.7 Other Retrieval Techniques Chapter 7 Video Databases 7.1 Organizing Content of a Single Video 7.2 Querying Content of Video Libraries 7.3 Video Segmentation 7.4 Video Standards Chapter 8 Audio Databases 8.1 A General Model of Audio Data 8.2 Capturing Adio Content through Discrete Transformations 8.3 Indexing Audio Data Chapter 9 Multimedia Databases 9.1 Conceptual Design and Architecture of a Multimedia Database 9.2 Organizing Multimedia Data based on the Principle of Uniformity 9.3 Media-Abstractions 9.4 Query Languages for Retrieving Multimedia Data 9.5 Indexing SMDSs with Enhanced Inverted Indices 9.6 Query Relaxation/Expansion 9.7 Final Remarks Part III: PHYSICAL STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL Chapter 10 Retrieving Multimedia Data from Disks 10.1 An Overview of Disks 10.2 RAID Arrays and Placement Methods 10.3 A Model of Heterogeneous Disk Servers 10.4 An Algorithm to Support VCR-Functions Chapter 11 Retrieving Multimedia Data from CD-Rom 11.1 Introduction to CD-Roms and CD-Rom Modeling 11.2 Scheduling Retrieval of Multiple Sectors from CD-Roms 11.3 Placement Methods Chapter 12 Retrieving Multimedia Data from Tapes 12.1 Tape Recording Mechanisms 12.2 Robotic Tape Libraries Chapter 13 Creating Distributed Multimedia Presentations 13.1 Objects in Multimedia Presentations 13.2 Specifying Multimedia Documents with Temporal Constraints 13.3 Efficient Solution of temporal Presentation Constraints 13.4 Spatial Constraints Chapter 14 Distributed Media Servers 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Distributed Multimedia Server Architecture 14.3 Distributed Retrieval Plans 14.4 Optimal Distributed Retrieval Plans 14.5 An Algorithm to compute Optimal Retrieval Plans Chapter 15 Future Directions 15.1 Querying the Web 15.2 Mobile Multimedia Systems 15.3 Wateremarking and Steganography 15.4 Other Directions Chapter 16 Term Projects