Application of Sparse Database in Multimedia Management and Retrieval

Multimedia retrieval demands better efficience and accuracy to satisfy increasing extensive application. Since multimedia is enormous with various elements and complex features, it will waste storage to manage it with traditional RDBMS. Combined with researches on sparse database, this research explores how to use sparse database to manage multimedia and perform characteristic-based retrieval on it. It mainly works on methods of decreasing the storage cost while ensuring retrieval efficiency.