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Benchmarking Multimedia Databases

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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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  1. Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119597

    A. Desai Narasimhalu, Mohan S. Kankanhalli & Jiankang Wu

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Narasimhalu, A.D., Kankanhalli, M.S. & Wu, J. Benchmarking Multimedia Databases. Multimedia Tools and Applications 4, 333–356 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009641123797

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