In the last few years multimedia hardware and applications have become widely available on PC and workstations. Moreover, through the tremendous development and

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Multimedia computing has emerged as a major area of research. Coupled with high-speed networks, multimedia computer systems have opened a spectrum of new applic

Multimedia technology has the potential to transform end user computing from interactive text and graphics models into something more compatible with the digita

Current research in Visual Database Systems can be characterized by scalability, multi-modality of interaction, and higher semantic levels of data. Visual inter