Discuss benefits of multimedia databases. How do you query image database?

Multimedia database

A multimedia database management system (MM-DBMS) is a framework that manages different types of data potentially represented in a wide diversity of formats on a wide array of media sources.

Benefits of Multimedia database:

  •  They support multiple formats of data (text, audio, video, etc)
  •  Data independence: Separate the database and the management from the application program. 
  • They provide access and authorization control. 
  • Query support: Multimedia databases should have the ability to uniformly Query data (media data, Textual data) represented in different formats and have the ability to simultaneously query different media sources and conduct classical database operations across them.
Multimedia databases provide features that allow users to store and query different types of multimedia information, which includes images (such as photos or drawings), video clips (such as movies, newsreels, or home videos), audio clips (such as songs, phone messages, or speeches), and documents (such as books or articles). The main types of database queries that are needed involve locating multimedia sources that contain certain objects of interest. For example, one may want to locate all video clips in a video database that includes a certain person, say Michael Jackson. One may also want to retrieve video clips based on certain activities included in them, such as video clips where a soccer goal is scored by a certain player or team. 




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