Multimedia Database Management Systems

A comprehensive, systematic approach to multimedia database management systems. It presents methods for managing the increasing demands of multimedia databases and their inherent design and architecture issues, and covers how to create an effective multimedia database by integrating the various information indexing and retrieval methods available. It also addresses how to measure multimedia database performance that is based on similarity to queries and routinely affected by human judgement. The book concludes with a discussion of networking and operating system support for multimedia databases and a look at research and development in this dynamic field.

Guojun Lu is currently senior lecturer at the Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology at Monash University in Churchill, Australia. Previously, he was a lecturer at Deakin University and a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. Lu received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Loughborough University of Technology in England, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Nanjing Institute of Technology in China.