The Handbook of Multimedia Information Management

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.