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