MU4201 Multimedia Databases Syllabus:

MU4201 Multimedia Databases Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To understand about the database storage, retrieval of multimedia elements.
 To familiarize about the database indexing methods and different multidimensional data structures.
 To learn about text database and image database storage and retrieval.
 To understand design and architecture of a Multimedia Database.
 To understand about Audio and Video Storage.

UNIT I DATABASE INDEXING METHODS

Hashing – B-trees – Secondary Key Access Methods – Inverted Files – Point Access Methods (PAMs) –Spatial Access Methods (SAMs) – Space Filling Curves – Transformation to Higher–D Points – Multidimensional Data Structures – K-D Trees – Point Quadtrees– The MX–Quadtree– RTrees.
Suggested Activities
1. Flipped classroom on traditional databases.
2. External learning – Comparison of different data structures and its usage.
3. Practical – Application development using multi-dimensional data structures.
Suggested Evaluation Methods
1. Assignments on hashing mechanisms
2. Tutorials – Indexing and access methods.
3. Demonstration of the application development.

UNIT II TEXT DATABASES

Precision and Recall – Stop Lists – Word Stems and Frequency Tables – Latent Semantic Indexing – TV-Trees – Indexing Text and DNA Strings – Access Methods for Text – Full Text Scanning – Inversion – Signature Files – Vector Space Model and Clustering.
Suggested Activities
1. Flipped classroom on text databases.
2. External learning – Comparison of other retrieval techniques for text databases and its usage.
3. Practical – Application development in text databases.
Suggested Evaluation Methods
1. Assignments on information retrieval techniques.
2. Tutorials – Access methods for text databases.
3. Demonstration of the practical implementation.

UNIT III IMAGE RETRIEVAL MECHANISMS

Image Databases – Raw Images – Compressed Image Representations – Similarity Based Retrieval – Alternative Image DB Paradigms – Representing Image DBs with Relations – Representing Image DBs with R-Trees – Retrieving Images by Spatial Layout – Implementations.
Suggested Activities
1. Flipped classroom on image databases.
2. External learning – Retrieving Images.
3. Practical – Application development in image databases.
Suggested Evaluation Methods
1. Assignments on image retrieval mechanisms.
2. Tutorials – R-trees.
3. Demonstration of the practical implementation

UNIT IV AUDIO/VIDEO DATABASES

Audio Databases – A General Model of Audio Data – Capturing Audio Content through Discrete Transformation – Indexing Audio Data–Video Databases – Organizing Content of a Single Video – Querying Content of Video Libraries – Video Segmentation.
Suggested Activities
1. Flipped classroom on audio/video databases.
2. External learning – Capturing and querying audio and video content.
3. Practical – Application development in video databases.
Suggested Evaluation Methods
1. Assignments on capturing audio/ video content.
2. Tutorials – Indexing audio/video databases.
3. Demonstration of the practical implementation

UNIT V MULTIMEDIA DATABASE DESIGN

Design and Architecture of a Multimedia Database – Organizing Multimedia Data based on the Principle of Uniformity – Media Abstractions – Query Languages for Retrieving Multimedia Data.
Suggested Activities
1. Flipped classroom on text databases.
2. External learning – Query languages for retrieving multimedia data.
3. Practical – Application development.
Suggested Evaluation Methods
1. Assignments on organizing multimedia data.
2. Tutorials – Query languages for retrieving multimedia data.
3. Demonstration of the practical implementation

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO1:Demonstrate the multidimensional data structures for multimedia applications
CO2:Apply database indexing methods for efficient storage and retrieval of multimedia content.
CO3:Work with Text databases, its storage and retrieval.
CO4:Formulate and generalize the use of audio and video databases for real time multimedia applications.
CO5:Demonstrate about the Image database, its storage and retrieval.Apply multimedia database design for multimedia architecture.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES

1. V. S. Subramanian, “Principles of Multimedia Database Systems”, Harcourt India Pvt Ltd., 2001.
2. Christos Faloutsos, “Searching Multimedia databases by Content”, Kluwer Academic Publishers,2011.
3. S. Khoshafian, A. B. Baker, “Multimedia and Imaging Databases”, Elsevier, 1996.
4. C. Kingsley Nwosu, “Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies”, Kluwer Academic Publishers,1996.
5. Lynne Dunckley, “Multimedia Databases: An Object Relational Approach”, Pearson Education, 2003.
6. R. Elmasri, S. B. Navathe, “Fundamentals of Database Systems”, Seventh edition, Pearson Education,2017.