Unit 1
Introduction: An introduction to Multimedia Databases – Need for MMDB – Metadata based and Content based Retrieval. Object Oriented and Object Relational Databases: Object Relational Database – Object-Oriented Databases – Data Models – Queries over such databases.
Unit 2
Architectures for MMDB: Architecture requirements – multimedia server design – distributed multimedia servers – client server architecture – peer-to-peer systems Metadata for MMDB: Features of Metadata – Types of Metadata – Metadata for Text, Images, Audio, Video – Annotation, generation and extraction – standards Multimedia Query Processing: Data Manipulation – Transaction Management – Query Processing – Query language issues – SQL for Multimedia Queries. Storage Management: Access Methods and Indexing – Quad tree – R-Trees Storage Methods (Striping, RAID etc).