Introduction : An introduction to Object-oriented Databases; Multidimensional Data Structures:
k-d Trees, Point Quadtrees, The MX-Quadtree, R-Trees, comparison of Different Data Structures
Image Databases : Raw Images, Compressed Image Representations, Image Processing:
Segmentation, Similarity-Based Retrieval, Alternative Image DB Paradigms, Representing Image
DBs with Relations, Representing Image DBs with R-Trees, Retrieving Images By Spatial
Layout, Implementations
Text/Document Databases : Precision and Recall, Stop Lists, Word Stems, and Frequency
Tables, Latent Semantic Indexing, TV-Trees, Other Retrieval Techniques
Video Databases : Organizing Content of a Single Video, Querying Content of Video Libraries,
Video Segmentation, video Standards
Audio Databases: A General Model of Audio Data, Capturing Audio Content through Discrete
Transformation, Indexing Audio Data. Multimedia Databases : Design and Architecture of a
Multimedia Database, Organizing Multimedia Data Based on The Principle of Uniformity, Media
Abstractions, Query Languages for Retrieving Multimedia Data, Indexing SMDSs with Enhanced
Inverted Indices, Query Relaxation/Expansion
Creating Distributed Multimedia Presentations : Objects in Multimedia Presentations,
Specifying Multimedia Documents with Temporal Constraints, Efficient
Presentation Constraints, Spatial Constraints.
Solution of Temporal
Spatial Concepts and Data Models: Models of spatial information, Design extending the ER
model with spatial concepts, Extending the ER model pictograms, Object oriented data model
with UML.
Spatial Query Languages: Extending the SQL for spatial data, Examples of queries that
emphasis spatial data, Object relational schema examples queries.