Multimedia Database Systems

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.