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Multimedia technologies are being adopted both in the professional and commercial world with great enthusiasm. This has led to a significant interest in the research and development of multimedia databases. However, none of these efforts have really addressed the issues related to the benchmarking of multimedia databases. We analyze the problem of benchmarking multimedia databases in this paper and suggest a methodology.

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Narasimhalu, A.D., Kankanhalli, M.S., Wu, J. (1998). Benchmarking Multimedia Databases. In: Furht, B. (eds) Multimedia Technologies and Applications for the 21st Century. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 431. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-28767-6_5

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