Contents

• Intoduction
  • What is Multimedia Data
  • How is Multimedia Data Different ?
  • Basic Approaches for Data Retrieval
  
  
• Advanced Data Structure to represent Multimedia data :
  • Why are access methods important
  • k-d Trees
    • Adding elements to k-d Tree
    • Deleting element from k-d tree
  • Division of Space by Quad-trees
    • Simple definition of node structure of a point quad-tree:
    • Common uses of Quad-trees are :
    • Representing Image Using Quad-tree:
    • Indexing Using Quadtrees:
    • Advantages of quad trees include:
  • R-Trees
    • Structure of an R-tree node is defined as follows:
    • To insert a node
    • To delete node form R-tree
    • Searching R-tree
    • Variants of R-tree
  • Types of Queries:
  • Comparison of Different Data Structures
  
  
• Metadata
  • Need of Metadata
  • Metadata Classification
    • Based on dependence on content
    • Hierarchical Classification
  • Source of Metadata
  • Generation of Metadata
  • Metadata standards
  • Some points to remember while generating metadata
  
  
• Multimedia database support by SQL and other packages
  • Large Object Types in Oracle and SQL3
  • SQL/MM
  • Oracle's interMedia
  
  
• Epilogue
  • Conclusion
  • Future Scope
  
  
• Bibliography