CONTENIDO:
1. INTRODUCTION TO MULTIMEDIA DATABASES
1.1 Introduction
1.2 What is Essential about Database Systems?
1.3 What is Different about Multimedia Data?
1.4 Multimedia Applications
1.5 What is in the Rest of the Book?
2 MULTIMEDIA DATA
2.1 Multimedia Data Size
2.2 Real-time Nature of Multimedia
2.3 Why is the Semantic Nature of Multimedia Data a Problem?
3 THE HUMAN SENSORY SYSTEM AND MULTIMEDIA
3.1 Introduction ¿ Human Information Processing
3.2 Human Brain and Multimedia Information
3.3 The Senses
3.4 Converting Data into Sensory Perception
4 AN INTRODUCTION TO SQL AND MULTIMEDIA
4.1 Introduction to SQL
4.2 Methods Using PL/SQL Stored Procedures
4.3 Manipulating Large Objects
5 QUERYING MULTIMEDIA DATA
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Manipulating Multimedia Data
5.3 What is the Classification Problem?
5.4 Summary of Chapter
6 MODELING MULTIMEDIA DATABASES
6.1 Issues of Designing Multimedia Database Management Systems
6.2 Semantic Data Modeling
6.3 Object-oriented Design
6.4 Object Methods
6.5 Object-relational Approach
7 USING MULTIMEDIA METADATA
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Classifying Metadata
7.3 Generating and Extracting Metadata
7.4 The Role of Metadata Standards
7.5 Digital Rights Management
7.6 Domain-dependent Metadata
7.7 Developing Ontologies
8 MULTIMEDIA DATABASE ARCHITECTURE AND PERFORMANCE
8.1 Introduction to Multimedia Architecture Requirements
8.2 Performance Issues in Specific Implementations
8.3 Content Management
9 MULTIMEDIA AND THE INTERNET
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Delivery of Multimedia Data
9.3 Media Streams
9.4 Network Protocols
9.5 User Datagram Protocol
9.6 Quality-of-service Issues ¿ Internet Service Models
9.7 Packets and Datagrams ¿ Sequence and Loss
9.8 Network Architecture
9.9 Requirements of Applications Involving Multicasting and Interactivity
10 DEALING WITH TEXT DATABASES
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Querying Character Data Using SQL
10.3 Statistical Methods for Text Analysis 10.4 Querying Multimedia Text
10.5 Content-dependent Metadata
10.6 Indexing Technologies for Text
11 DEALING WITH IMAGE DATABASES
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Technologies for Image Processing
11.3 The Role of Feature Extraction
11.4 Retrieval Methods
11.5 Image Analysis and Object Recognition
11.6 Image Classification
11.7 Image Database Software
11.8 Developing Image Media Databases
12 DEALING WITH VIDEO DATABASES
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Video Analysis and Segmentation
12.3 Storage of Video Objects
12.4 Disk Scheduling
12.5 Dealing with Moving Images
12.6 Metadata for Speech
12.7 Metadata for Video
12.8 Manipulating Video Data
12.9 Video Query Process
12.10 Video Applications
Appendix A Normalization and Relational Databases
Appendix B Metadata Standards
Appendix C SQL Notes
Appendix D Acronyms
Appendix E Glossary
Appendix F References
Index Material acompañante: un CD que ofrece ejemplos de código para la mayoría de los capítulos y ejemplos de la aplicación de bases de datos multimedia para los dos estudios de caso principales que se tratan en el libro
