Towards a theory of multimedia database systems / Sherry Marcus and V.S. Subrahmanian --;A Unified approach to data modelling and retrieval for a class of image database applications / Venkat N. Gudivada, Vijay V. Raghavan, and Kanonluk Vanapipat --;The QBISM medical image DBMS / Manish Arya [and others] --;Retrieval of pictures using approximate matching / A. Prasad Sistla and Clement Yu --;Ink as a first-class datatype in multimedia databases / Walid G. Aref, Daniel Barbará and Daniel Lopresti --;Indexing for retrieval by similarity / H.V. Jagadish --;Filtering distance queries in image retrieval / A. Belussi [and others] --;Stream-based versus structured video objects: issues solutions, and challenges / Shahram Ghandeharizadeh --;The Storage and retrieval of continuous media data / Banu Özden, Rajeev Rastogi, and Avi Silberschatz --;Querying multimedia databases in SQL / Sherry Marcus --;Multimedia authoring systems / Ross Cutler and Kasim Selçuk Candan --;Metadata for building the multimedia patch quilt / Vipul Kashyap, Kshitij Shah, and Amit Sheth.
Some of the problems include: - what a multimedia database query means - what kinds of languages to use for posing queries - how to develop compilers for such languages - how to develop indexing structures for storing media on ancillary devices - data compression techniques - how to present and author presentations based on user queries.