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The only book so far on MPEG and distributed multimedia databases
This book is a very academic one about the technologies, concepts, and tools necessary for the design and use of distributed content-based multimedia systems. SQL/MM is an international standards effort to extend SQL to support multimedia applications, including access and manipulation of geographic data. MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 are, respectively, about the indexing/retrieval and distribution of multimedia objects. This book focuses on combining these standard technologies to produce functional and scalable distributed multimedia databases.
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Constructive Compendium!
This is an excellent book which brings together a lot of diverse topics, both theory and procedure, which together offer real insight into the burdensome task of handling reams of multimedia data.
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Database Pocket Guide
This book should be renamed as Database Pocket Guide.Good for College students ,who just want to refer to refresh themselves.Good for Database Users whojust want to know little details about Distributed Databases.Butfor people who are really serious about Distributed Databases, this is notthe right choice. A Good one could be "Managing Distributed Databases:Building Bridges between Database Islands" ... Read more

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Good...
This book is good and it contains almost all the concepts of this area published till the date of the publication of this book. I would mainly like to comment Mahabala, the first reviewer of this book. He was my Ph.D. guide in IIT Madras. I spent eight years with him and at the end he simply sent me out without allowing me to submit the thesis (Another Professor Khemani helped him in this). Please please do not believe Prof. Mahabala's words. He does not know any thing in modern computer science but he speakes as if he knows every thing. May be he is feeling that he is eligible for receiving Turing award!!! All that an IT professional has to know about Multimedia
Multimedia (MM) combined with Internet has revolutionized the concept of information particularly in data communication. Before many in the developing countries could fully understand the power of the Internet, and get ready to use text oriented data, they are told that the current Internet is not suited for multimedia! One is asked to evaluate a PC oneintends to buy, from the multimedia angle. Multimedia is no longer a research topic, but a fact of life in the IT dominated world of today. The book by Dr B Prabhakaran, who did his Ph. D. in IIT, Madras (now Chennai) will satisfy the needs of a reader who wants to understand the basics of MM as well as the state-of-the-art as of today. Even though the book is written by a researcher, it presentsthe material in a manner, easily understood by an IT professional. Ability to code information in any form: text, image, graphics, voice, and movies, as binary files is the basis for MM.One will however, have touse appropriate encodersand presentation devices. Problems in handling MM are its large size, and its real-time nature for presentation purposes. Memory requirement for MM is however reduced by using certain compression (associated decompression) techniques. MM databases are classified as Orchestrated (composition of stored objects) or Live (generated by devices such as microphone or Video camera). They can also be classified as Discrete (time independent such as text, graphics or image), or Continuous such as video, and audio. MM storage and management involves huge files (of the order of Gigabytes), supporting simultaneous synchronized access to multiple files (audio and video), and supporting large disk access bandwidth. Book discusses various ways of allocating space on the disk to achieve maximum bandwidth. Once a MM presentation at the client's end has started, there can be no interruption due to network delay or noticeable gaps due to lost packets. A MMDB server has to have the freedom to admit a new request based on its ability to deliver to the network MM data meeting the real-time requirement. The network in turn should guarantee delivery of the data with requisite Quality of Service (QoS) as specified by the maximum delay (with a specified jitter) and probability (low enough) ofthe loss of packets. Since we want to retrieve MM from a server across the network based on our information need, it is interesting to think in terms of how we will specify our need. Obviously, we want support for following type of queries:Get me the movie in which this scene appears, or this song is played. Show me the movie 30 minutes after its start Show me the image where President Yeltsin is seen to the left of President Clinton. Show me the video where the river changes its course.We cannot as yet handle all these query types. In order to handle some of these queries, one has to associate with each MM data Metadata, which is data about data. Metadata such as author's name or date of recording has to be entered with the MM data. Certain other types of metadata which are based on the content can be obtained by processing the MM data. Indexing an MM database has to be based on themetadata. Content-based retrieval is in its infancy and one can expect involvement of many disciplines such as: statistics, image and speech recognition, automated reasoning, data mining, etc. In a way, content-based retrieval is the ultimate research problem. The book covers the essence of all topics relevant to making MM a commodity service, without burdening the user with unnecessary details. Reviewer would like to urge all IT professionals to get comfortable with multimedia by reading this highly readable book. The book can also be used as a text book for a course on MM. ... Read more

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lots of info about databases
This is old book, so if you arebuying staff on this subject, find something suitable, newer. If you decide to by this book (or if you stumble on it somehow), this book will give you lots of info about databases, but keep in mind that multimedial content of databases 5 years ago was something different than today. Audio and video data stream is normal in today's application, and in those days there where lack of clients that could receive such content.If you find this book, read it, it will give you some new view on development and basis of databases, but don't by it. ... Read more

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High level but useful book
This book is now 3+ years old and therefore is a buit outdated. Nevertheless it gives a very good description of the issues and challanges for managing multimedia databases. The part on multimedia data mining is less detailed. This could be due to the fact that 3 years ago not much was reported on multimedia data mining. It is perhaps time to write the next edition. Nevertheless I would recommend this book to someone who wants a quick overview of the field.

Good reading
This is the fourth in a series of book the author has written on data management and data mining. While I rated the earlier book on data management as excellent, this book does not bring out the details unique to multimedia data mining. However the multimedia data management part of the book was very interesting. The part on multimedia data mining was somewhat premature as many of the developments have reuslted during the past two years or so.

Shallow Book Without Real Content
This book according to its jacket is written for technical managers, ..., and technologists.As a technologist familiar with conventional database management, I purchased this book to be informed about broad principles and issues with respect to multimedia.The book does not cover multimedia database technology in any depth, rather relying on a shallow descriptions and hand waving as the means of managing these data.For example in the section about multimedia metadata, the metadata described for text, audio, image and video are identical, except that the author seems to have done a global replace with the appropriate word.This approach is seen in several other parts of the book including the section on data mining.Even the bibliography is wanting, you would be better served accessing online repositories such as citeseer.A VERY disappointing book from a known researcher in database systems. ... Read more

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Book covers much ground using many disciplines
This book on multimedia database systems sometimes covers issues at a low level, sometimes at a high level. Whenever the author is discussing matters of text retrieval or simple issues such as moment calculations, he will go into great detail. If he is discussing the more complex issue of audio information indexing or compression algorithms, the discussion will be at a very high level. The vast majority of this book is not about database design at all, but is more a smorgasbord of all of the accompanying issues. For example, chapter 2 discusses a large variety of compression algorithms, with each technique getting very brief treatment. Chapters 4 through 7 discuss, also very briefly, most of the features used for indexing and retrieving text, audio, image, and video respectively. For example, there is a brief mention of shape descriptors in the chapter on image indexing and retrieval. Chapters 8 through 11 are where most of the information on integrating all of the individual issues into one coherent database scheme occur, but these chapters are not very clear in their suggestions or solutions.Chapter 12 discusses emerging technologies in multimedia database systems, but since this book was written in 1999, this chapter is not very useful.
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Subjects:  1. Computer Books: Database    2. Computer Graphics - General    3. Computers    4. Computers - General Information    5. Database Management - Database Mining    6. Interactive & Multimedia    7. Databases & data structures    8. Image processing    9. Multimedia