Multimedia Databases Syllabus


Subject Code:07A81201 L:4 T/P/D:1 Credits:4 Int. Marks:20 Ext. Marks:80 Total Marks:100
UNIT I: 
Introduction : An introduction to Object-oriented Databases; Multidimensional Data Structures: k-d Trees, Point Quadtrees, The MX-Quadtree, R-Trees, comparison of Different Data Structures
UNIT II: 
Image Databases : Raw Images, Compressed Image Representations, Image Processing: Segmentation, Similarity-Based Retrieval, Alternative Image DB Paradigms, Representing Image DBs with Relations, Representing Image DBs with R-Trees, Retrieving Images By Spatial Layout, Implementations
UNIT III: 
Text/Document Databases : Precision and Recall, Stop Lists, Word Stems, and Frequency Tables, Latent Semantic Indexing, TV-Trees, Other Retrieval Techniques
UNIT IV: 
Video Databases : Organizing Content of a Single Video, Querying Content of Video Libraries, Video Segmentation, video Standards
Audio Databases : A General Model of Audio Data, Capturing Audio Content through Discrete Transformation, Indexing Audio Data
UNIT V: 
Multimedia Databases : Design and Architecture of a Multimedia Database, Organizing Multimedia Data Based on The Principle of Uniformity, Media Abstractions, Query Languages for Retrieving Multimedia Data, Indexing SMDSs with Enhanced Inverted Indices, Query Relaxation/Expansion
UNIT VI:
Creating Distributed Multimedia Presentations : Objects in Multimedia Presentations, Specifying Multimedia Documents with Temporal Constraints, Efficient Solution of Temporal Presentation Constraints, Spatial Constraints.
UNIT VII: 
Spatial Concepts and Data Models: Models of spatial information, Design extending the ER model with spatial concepts, Extending the ER model pictograms, Object oriented data model with UML.
UNIT VIII: 
Spatial Query Languages: Extending the SQL for spatial data, Examples of queries that emphasis spatial data, Object relational schema examples querries.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Principles of Multimedia Database Systems, V.S. Subrahmanian, Elseveir(Morgan Kauffman).
2. Spatial Databases, Shashi Shekhar, Sanjiv Chawla, Pearson Education.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Multimedia Databases: An object relational approach, Lynne Dunckley, Pearson Education.
2. Multimedia Database Systems, Prabhakaram, Springer.