MPEG-7 meets Multimedia Database Systems

Mario Döller (University Passau, Germany)

Abstract: Currently used Database Management Systems do not fulfill the require-ments of multimedia in querying, indexing and content modeling. Thus, most database provider offer extenders for multimedia data. These extensions, however, provide onlylimited semantic modeling and rely on simple index structure which do not meet the whole nature of multimedia. In this context, this paper points out approaches for theintegration of MPEG-7 as a standard for describing multimedia content into a database management system and its impact to core parts of a database such as data model,access methods, query language and query optimization.

Keywords: MPEG-7, multimedia databases

Categories: H.2, H.3.3