Abstract

One of the challenges in the development of a content-based multimedia indexing and retrieval application is to achieve an efficient indexing scheme. The developers and users who are accustomed to making queries to retrieve a particular multimedia item from a large scale database can be frustrated by the long query times. Conventional indexing structures cannot usually cope with the requirements of a multimedia database, such as dynamic indexing or the presence of high-dimensional audiovisual features. Such structures do not scale well with the ever increasing size of multimedia databases whilst inducing corruption and resulting in an over-crowded indexing structure. This paper addresses such problems and presents a novel indexing technique, Hierarchical Cellular Tree (HCT), which is designed to bring an effective solution especially for indexing large multimedia databases. Furthermore it provides an enhanced browsing

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