For example, an editor should be able to author a query that interrogates the content to retrieve all the video footage of Bosnia acquired during December 1993. A multimedia server in support of news editing contains a large amount of content acquired over a period of time. A system that can discover interesting facts and bring them it to the attention of an editor would be extremely valuable. Assuming that a server has the necessary tables and statistical tools, it would be useful for it to discover such a trend. Of course, to serve a wide variety of applications, the knowledge discovery tools should be general purpose and include tailoring tools that enable an application to specialize them for their specific requirements.
Continuous media is one of the novelties of a multimedia server.
This research focuses on this media type and its storage and retrieval requirements. F. Borko, Kluwer Academic Publishing 1997. F. Borko, CRC Press, Florida, 1998. Researchers in the area of temporal, spatial, tempro-spatial databases on structured video. Indexing techniques in support query processing.