Context-Aware Querying in Multimedia Databases – A Futuristic Approach

Efficient retrieval of multimedia objects has gained enormous focus in recent years. A number of techniques have been suggested for retrieval of textual information; however, relatively little has been suggested for efficient retrieval of multimedia objects. In this paper we have proposed a generic architecture for contextaware retrieval of multimedia objects. The proposed framework combines the well-known approaches of text-based retrieval and context-aware retrieval to formulate architecture for accurate retrieval of multimedia data.

• Nadeem Iftikhar
• Zouhaib Zafar
• Shaukat Ali

• Context-aware retrieval
• information retrieval
• multimedia databases
• multimedia data.

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