interMedia: Managing Multimedia Content in Oracle8i

Melli Annamalai,
interMedia and Visual Information Retrieval,
Oracle Corporation

2:00pm Friday Feb. 11, 2000
Lecture Hall III, Administration Building

interMedia is the Oracle8i component that enables multimedia content to benefit from advanced database services. It enables Oracle8i to manage text, documents, image, audio and video in an integrated fashion with other traditional database information. Oracle8i interMedia's architecture, tools and services are designed to seamlessly support Internet and e-commerce applications. The features include: full and thematic text search and index capabilities, standard SQL access to text, documents, images, audio and video data, native support for image, audio, video data types, formats, and compression schemes, data attribute management, support for web authoring applications, flexible storage support and content-based retrieval of images.

This talk will describe the technologies behind this product, with special focus on content-based retrieval of images. A novel technique of modeling an high dimensionalindex using several bitmap indexes has been used to build an efficient image index. The talk will also compare and contrast industrial and academic perspectives of multimedia database technology.