Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases [Hardcover]

Bhavani Thuraisingham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 28, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0849300371 | ISBN-13: 978-0849300370 | Edition: 1

There is now so much data on the Web that managing it with conventional tools is becoming almost impossible. To manage this data, provide interoperability and warehousing between multiple data sources and systems, and extract information from the databases and warehouses, various tools are being developed. In fact, developments in multimedia database management have exploded during the past decade. To date, however, there has been little information available on providing a complete set of services for multimedia databases, including their management, mining, and integration on the Web for electronic enterprises.

Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases fills that gap. Focusing on managing and mining multimedia databases for electronic commerce and business, it explores database management system techniques for text, image, audio, and video databases. It addresses the issues and challenges of mining multimedia databases to extract information, and discusses the directions and challenges related to integrating multimedia databases for the Web, particularly for e-business.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of multimedia data management and mining technologies, from the underlying concepts, architectures, and data models for multimedia database systems to the technologies that support multimedia data management on the Web, privacy issues, and emerging standards, prototypes, and products. Designed for technical managers, executives, and technologists, it offers your only opportunity to learn about both multimedia data management and multimedia data mining within a single book.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (June 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849300371
• ISBN-13: 978-0849300370
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,552,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Shallow Book Without Real Content, October 26, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases (Hardcover)

This book according to its jacket is written for technical managers, ..., and technologists. As a technologist familiar with conventional database management, I purchased this book to be informed about broad principles and issues with respect to multimedia. The book does not cover multimedia database technology in any depth, rather relying on a shallow descriptions and hand waving as the means of managing these data. For example in the section about multimedia metadata, the metadata described for text, audio, image and video are identical, except that the author seems to have done a global replace with the appropriate word. This approach is seen in several other parts of the book including the section on data mining. Even the bibliography is wanting, you would be better served accessing online repositories such as citeseer. A VERY disappointing book from a known researcher in database systems.

4.0 out of 5 stars High level but useful book, September 3, 2004

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Larry Jacobs "LarryJ" (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases (Hardcover)

This book is now 3+ years old and therefore is a buit outdated. Nevertheless it gives a very good description of the issues and challanges for managing multimedia databases. The part on multimedia data mining is less detailed. This could be due to the fact that 3 years ago not much was reported on multimedia data mining. It is perhaps time to write the next edition. Nevertheless I would recommend this book to someone who wants a quick overview of the field.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reading, December 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases (Hardcover)

This is the fourth in a series of book the author has written on data management and data mining. While I rated the earlier book on data management as excellent, this book does not bring out the details unique to multimedia data mining. However the multimedia data management part of the book was very interesting. The part on multimedia data mining was somewhat premature as many of the developments have reuslted during the past two years or so.