Generic Multimedia Database Architecture

Multimedia, as it stands now is perhaps the most diverse and rich culture around the globe. One of the major needs of Multimedia is to have a single system that enables people to efficiently search through their multimedia catalogues. Many Domain Specific Systems and architectures have been proposed but up till now no generic and complete architecture is proposed. In this paper, we have suggested a generic architecture for Multimedia Database. The main strengths of our architecture besides being generic are Semantic Libraries to reduce semantic gap, levels of feature extraction for more specific and detailed feature extraction according to classes defined by prior level, and merging of two types of queries i.e. text and QBE (Query by Example) for more accurate yet detailed results.

Authors:

• Mohib ur Rehman
• Imran Ihsan
• Mobin Uddin Ahmed
• Nadeem Iftikhar
• Muhammad Abdul Qadir

Keywords:

• Multimedia Database Architecture
• Semantics
• Feature Extraction
• Ontology.

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