INTRODUCTION
Requirement for DBMS to manage multimedia data
- Retrieval based on the content of multimedia data
- Virtual manipulation of multimedia data
This paper focuses on requirement 2
Requirement for manipulation of multimedia data content
- Deriving a portion of multimedia data.
- Appending the specific data to the portion.
- Creating a new object based on a portion or many portions.
Virtual segment consists of the portions of multimedia
data.
Example
- A generic image object that capture the various versions based on
an image object.
- A video-object database system named OVID.