Multimedia Database Management Systems (Computing Library) (Hardcover)

by Guojun Lu (Author) "The initial focus in multimedia research and development was on multimedia communications and multimedia authoring and presentation [1-4]..." (more)
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Provides a comprehensive, systematic approach to understanding current and emerging methods for handling the increasing demands of multimedia databases and their inherent systems issues. Demonstrates how to create an effective multimedia database by integrating the various information indexing and retrieval methods available. DLC: Multimedia systems.

About the Author
Guojun Lu is currently senior lecturer at the Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology at Monash University in Churchill, Australia. Previously, he was a lecturer at Deakin University and a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. Lu received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Loughborough University of Technology in England, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Nanjing Institute of Technology in China.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 342 pages
• Publisher: Artech House Publishers (September 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890063427
• ISBN-13: 978-0890063422
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,214,547 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Book covers much ground using many disciplines, June 4, 2006

By	calvinnme "Texan refugee" (Fredericksburg, Va) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

This book on multimedia database systems sometimes covers issues at a low level, sometimes at a high level. Whenever the author is discussing matters of text retrieval or simple issues such as moment calculations, he will go into great detail. If he is discussing the more complex issue of audio information indexing or compression algorithms, the discussion will be at a very high level. The vast majority of this book is not about database design at all, but is more a smorgasbord of all of the accompanying issues. For example, chapter 2 discusses a large variety of compression algorithms, with each technique getting very brief treatment. Chapters 4 through 7 discuss, also very briefly, most of the features used for indexing and retrieving text, audio, image, and video respectively. For example, there is a brief mention of shape descriptors in the chapter on image indexing and retrieval. Chapters 8 through 11 are where most of the information on integrating all of the individual issues into one coherent database scheme occur, but these chapters are not very clear in their suggestions or solutions. Chapter 12 discusses emerging technologies in multimedia database systems, but since this book was written in 1999, this chapter is not very useful.
In summary, this book is good at collecting the issues involved for indexing and retrieving each type of multimedia, but when it comes to integrating the solutions, it somewhat misses the mark. It is way too expensive for what you are ultimately getting in instruction. If you are doing research on this issue, I would either pick it up used or see if you can find it in a library. A better choice on the core issues of multimedia database design minus so much of the signal and image processing material present in this book would be "Multimedia Database Management Systems" by Prabhakaran. It was written in 1996, but its content is still relevant.