The Handbook of Multimedia Information Management

by Grosky, William I.

• ISBN13: 9780132073257
• ISBN10: 0132073250
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: PRENTICE HALL

Summary

Increasingly, organizations are faced with managing extremely large collections of multimedia information, including audio, image and video. This book provides an up-to-date overview of the new database technologies being developed to meet this important new requirement. It covers the fundamental principles underlying the new generation of multimedia databases, and describes how such databases can be designed. Presents several working prototypes. It also reviews information retrieval techniques, multimedia interfaces, memory management, high-speed multimedia, and issues surrounding networked multimedia databases.

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(4)
William Grosky, Wayne State University, Detroit
Michigan, Ramesh Jain, University of California at San Diego
Rajiv Mehrotra, Eastman-Kodak Company, Rochester, New York
Introduction	5	(8)
William Grosky
Ramesh Jain
Rajiv Mehrotra
Data Modeling	13	(56)
1. Modeling Time-Based Media	13	(26)
Simon Gibbs
Christian Breiteneder
Dennis Tsichritzis, GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
2. Document Model Issues for Hypermedia	39	(30)
Lynda Hardman
Dick C. A. Bulterman, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Information Retrieval Techniques	69	(98)
3. Content-Based Indexing and Retrieval	69	(26)
H. V. Jagadish, AT & T Research
Murray Hill, New Jersey
4. Video and Image Content Representation and Retrieval	95	(44)
Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research
Briarcliff Manor, New York
Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University, Tempe
5. Video Segmentation for Video Data Management	139	(28)
Nilesh V. Patel
Ishwar Sethi, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Multimedia Interfaces	167	(44)
6. Visual Interfaces to Multimedia Databases	167	(22)
S. K. Chang, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
M. F. Costabile, Universita di Bari, Italy
7. Multimedia Interfaces-Multimedia Content Indication	189	(22)
Yoshinobu Tonomura, NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan
Multimedia Presentation	211	(26)
8. Composite Models	211	(26)
R. Hamakawa
A. Atarashi, NEC, Kanagawa, Japan
Memory Management	237	(98)
9. Memory Management: Codecs	237	(42)
Bhaskaran Vasudev, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Palo Alto, California
Wei Li, FutureTel, Inc., Sunnyvale, California
10. Design of Large-Scale Multimedia-on-Demand Storage Servers and Storage Hierarchies	279	(56)
Milind M. Buddhikot
Guru M. Parulkar
Srihari Sampath Kumar, Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
P. Venkat Rangan, University of California at San Diego
Multimedia Communications	335	(30)
11. Multimedia Communications--Synchronization	335	(30)
Shahab Baqai
M. Farrukh Khan
Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Prototype Systems	365	(10)
12. Image Database Prototypes	365	(40)
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
13. Video Database Systems--Recent Trends in Research and Development Activities	405	(44)
Eitetsu Oomoto, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Katsumi Tanaka, Kobe University, Japan
14. Third-Generation Distributed Hypermedia Systems	449	(26)
John F. Buford
Lloyd Rutledge, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
About the Contributors	475	(12)
Index	487