Multimedia Databases: An Object-Relational Approach [Paperback]

Lynne Dunckley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 2003

There is a huge growth in multimedia databases and the influence is spreading far and wide. Existing and future practitioners working in web technology, e-commerce, media-on demand, surveillance systems, GIS and telemedicine as well as traditional database management systems will need to know much more about the workings of multi media databases. And this is the book they will need as it will answer all their questions.

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Multimedia Databases brings together, for the first time in one book, a fully comprehensive coverage of multimedia databases: SQL, multimedia metadata, image processing, computer vision, information retrieval, networks, and distributed systems and database management.

It provides a solid understanding of multimedia data and database technology and explains why advances in both have come together to create the field of Multimedia databases. Anyone working in or studying multimedia databases is facing challenges that arise from integrating knowledge from a number of different fields such as multimedia, networks, communication systems, HCI and sensory systems as well as database concepts. This book provides answers to these challenges and covers all the different components that make up Multimedia databases.

If you're an existing or future practitioner whose working life is becoming increasingly influenced by a need to know more about Multimedia databases then this book if for you. It is written in an easy to follow style with numerous practical examples and exercises and an accompanying CD which provides code examples for most chapters and examples of the implementation of multimedia databases for the two main case studies covered in the book.

Multimedia databases now deal with a growing number of commercially important application areas such as media-on-demand, surveillance systems, GIS and medical information systems.

Multimedia Databases covers:

• The main features of multimedia data, compression (MPEG, etc.)
• The extraction and generation of metadata (including MPEG 7 and 23)
• The main features of SQL data types in relation to multimedia data
• How object-relational features of SQL3 can be used to create methods to manipulate large binary objects
• The implementation of user-defined types in Oracle and DB2
• The problems and solutions for manipulating multimedia data particularly in relation to querying, indexing and summarising multimedia data
• Multimedia architecture requirements, in particular, tuning and performance storage parameters
• Main features of Internet Protocols used for the transmission of multimedia data and network architecture to the delivery of multimedia
• Covers internet databases and looks at metadata and xml databases
• plus much more.

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About the Author

Lynne Dunckley, Ph.D is a professor of IT at Thames Valley University. She has carried out consultancy on Web issues and design for Accenture, AOL, BT, Morgan Stanley and numerous e-Commerce retailers. She has published work in the Journal of Decision Systems, Interacting with Computers, Interact, International Ergonomics Applications, Logistics Management and Operational Research Society, and major international refereed conferences in HCI in the UK and USA. She was the general chair of IWIPS'2001 -- the International Workshop for Intenationalisation of Products and Services -- and is on the editiorial board of the Journal of Expert Systems.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education (January 31, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201788993
• ISBN-13: 978-0201788990
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,351,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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