Abstract
Media objects such as audio, image, and video are binary, unstructured and hence un-interpreted. Multimedia databases have to derive and store interpretations based on the content of these media objects. These interpretations are termed metadata. Metadata is data about data. The metadata has to be generated automatically or semi-automatically (or in some cases manually) from the media information.
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Prabhakaran, B. (1997). Metadata for Multimedia. In: Multimedia Database Management Systems. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 375. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6235-1_3
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