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For multimedia databases, there are not only different media types, but also different ways to query the databases. The query mechanisms may include free text search, SQL-like querying, icon-based techniques, querying based upon the entity-relationship (ER) diagram, content-based querying, sound-based querying, as well as virtual-reality (VR) techniques. We will first discuss query languages for multimedia databases with emphasis on visual query languages, and then survey recent advances in query languages for heterogeneous multimedia databases and data sources. A powerful spatial/temporal query language called ΣQL is described, and we will illustrate this approach by data fusion examples.
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Chang, SK., Jungert, E. (2001). Query Languages for Multimedia Search. In: Lew, M.S. (eds) Principles of Visual Information Retrieval. Advances in Pattern Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3702-3_8
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