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CS 641: Multimedia Database Systems

List of Topics:

Overview of digital libraries, video conferencing, quality of service

Multidimensional indexing structures

Image and text databases, similarity-based search techniques

Audio and video databases, techniques to capture, index, store and retrieve video and audio streams by content

Multimedia databases, techniques to store multimedia data containing a mix of image data, text, audio and video data, as well as other heterogeneous data

Multimedia servers, storage servers that handle real-time constraints, quality of service guarantees, network bandwidth, and tertiary storage

Communication software and networking or multimedia information systems

Multimedia presentations, presentation schedules and delivery

Mobile/wireless multimedia

Multimedia security, watermarking, and cryptography