INTRODUCTION

Requirement for DBMS to manage multimedia data

  1. Retrieval based on the content of multimedia data
  2. Virtual manipulation of multimedia data

This paper focuses on requirement 2

Requirement for manipulation of multimedia data content

  1. Deriving a portion of multimedia data.
  2. Appending the specific data to the portion.
  3. Creating a new object based on a portion or many portions.

Virtual segment consists of the portions of multimedia data.

Example

  1. A generic image object that capture the various versions based on an image object.
  2. A video-object database system named OVID.