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A multimedia database is a database that hosts one or more primary media file types such
as .txt (documents), .jpg (images), .swf (videos), .mp3 (audio), etc. And loosely fall into
three main categories:
Due to the fact that the person being identified does not need to be physically present,
where the identification check is taking place.
This removes the need for the person being scanned to remember a PIN or password.
Fingerprint identification technology is also based on this type of multimedia database.
This is due to the relational database not being able to recognize the internal structure of a
Binary Large Object and therefore internal multimedia data components cannot be
retrieved...
The flip-side of the coin, is that unlike non-multimedia data stored in relational databases,
multimedia data cannot be easily indexed, retrieved or classified, except by way of social
bookmarking and ranking-rating, by actual humans.
This is made possible by metadata retrieval methods, commonly referred to as tags, and
tagging. This is why you can search for dogs, as an example, and a picture comes up
based on your text search term.
This is also referred to a schematic mode. Whereas doing a search with a picture of a dog
to locate other dog pictures is referred to as paradigmatic mode.
However, metadata retrieval, search, and identify methods severely lack in being able to
properly define uniform space and texture descriptions, such as the spatial relationships
between 3D objects, etc.
In a DBMS process, declarative user queries are done by defining a query language
as part of DBMS. It is known that the query is one of the most important parts of a
DBMS. Since a query gets used by both native and export users it is critical to use
effective query languages in order to promote user friendliness. Multimedia query
languages must deal with complex spatial and temporal relationships inherited in
the wide range of multimedia data types. Powerful query languages could help
manipulate multimedia DBMS and maintain the desired independence between the
database and the application. Due to the complexity of multimedia data, we need a
query language that could support semantic data retrieval which is done by using
keywords, indexes on keywords, and contents of multimedia objects. However the
query language of traditional DBMS dealt only with exact key match queries on
data types which means sufficient to deal with queries posed against metadata and
annotations of multimedia data.
There are two types of queries that are used in the database system. The first
query is called a well-defined query. A well-defined query is when properties of
objects are represented by a well defined set of labels. The conditional operators
are also well defined. In well-defined query, the user must know the exact
knowledge of the underlying database and the desired query result. This query
only works with exact matches. The second query type of is called the fuzzy query
where the properties of query objects are unclear or comparison operators in the
query do not give exact matches, This will result in all sets of different answers.
Multimedia database supports all type of charts and graphs which is considered a
great feature in the MDBS. Creating those charts and graphs will need special
queries and those queries are created by using SQL +D.
Latest Issues on Multimedia Database
• News-On-Demand
• Video-On-Demand
Multimedia technologies are attracting more and more interest every day. Video-on-
Demand is one of the buzzwords today and is now available for the public. Content
providers such as publishers, broadcasting companies and audio/video production
firms must be able to archive and index their productions for later retrieval. This is a
formidable task and it is even more so when the material to be handled encompasses
several media types and covers a time span of several years. In order for such a vast
amount of data to be easily available, existing multimedia database design models,
indexing and retrieval methodologies and delivery methods have to be improved and
refined. In addition, video, image and audio data cannot be effectively managed with
the exclusive use of older, keyword-based search techniques.
• KMeD
KMeD database is presented by features and objects. The selected objects of interest
in medical images such as X-Ray and MRI image are segmented using knowledge-
based model-guiding techniques. As with other multimedia database system features
and contents of the medical image are extracted and stored in a feature and content
database. In KMeD, Type Abstraction Hierarchies (TAHs) is used to represent the
knowledge about the image in three structures. A query process supports operators
such as "similar to" and "nearby" and conceptual terms such as "small" and "large"
to find the approximate matches to the features and contents. A technique has been
developed for visual interface to use point-click-and-drag input. This new
development by UCLA, namely KMeD database, can change the way hospitals
maintain and utilize all of their data.
• EtherMed
Future Work
In this scope, the CODAC and its sister project aims at realizing a quality adaptive
end-to-end multimedia system, i.e., we shall provide means for indexing and
retrieving multimedia data by their content and adaptation capabilities and develop
methods to guarantee a quality adaptive video transport to the client.
Depicts the architectural view of the end-to-end multimedia system, which we would
like to realize. For this we need to carry out a number of activities and the following
are the first work items under development in the CODAC project:
The application scenarios, we focus upon are sport event videos, M3box, and tele-
teaching. Sport events are an interesting application scenario since these videos
provide semantically rich content. The M3box is an adaptive multimedia message
box. It is developed by Siemens Corporate Technology.
Future Improvement
The most interesting and exciting thing about multimedia databases is how quickly
they're evolving. This growth, along with the emergence of inexpensive removable
storage devices such as DVD-which stores tens of gigabytes-will ignite an explosion
of multimedia applications. This explosion, in turn, will fuel an intense need for
powerful multimedia databases