Preprocessor RecognizedComponents

MultimediaData

MM Dataand

Meta-data

Multimedia DBMS

Users

Queries/Responses

OO/O-R DBMS

Multimedia Data

Preprocessing DBMS Processing

Marked-upDocuments

DTD Parser

DTD Manager

Type Generator

SGML Parser

InstanceGenerator

DBMS

Users

DTDs

SGML/HyTime

Processing

DBMS Processing

MultimediaDatabase

Queries/Responses

AudioMedia

Monomedia DataStream Variant

VideoMedia

TextMedia

ImageMedia

STextMedia

Atomic

NCMType CMType

AtomicVideo AtomicAudio

AtomicSText

AtomicText

AtomicImage

AtomicCompoundText

Element

HyTimeElements

MMElements

StandardElements

AtomicTypeSystem

Salient_object

Other_personAthlete

OtherHuman_body

HeadTorso

Limb Politician

Person

Image

MedicalImage Catalog NewsImage

PersonImageImageMiscEnvironmentalImage

And Pattern RecognitionImage Analysis

ObjectsSyntactic

Users

Queries/Responses

DBMS Processing

Raw Image

Imageand

Meta-data

ObjectsSalient

DISIMA System

OO DBMS

Computer Vision and/or Manual Processing

ObjectsSalient

Meta-dataandImage

Annotation