Multimedia databases

Abstract

A multimedia database is a controlled collection of multimedia data items such as text, images, graphic objects, video and audio. A multimedia database management system (DBMS) provides support for the creation, storage, access, query and control of multimedia database. The requirements of multimedia DBMS are; multimedia data modeling - multimedia object storage - multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and multimedia query support. This paper discusses a general framework for multimedia database systems and describes the requirements and architecture for these systems.