Multimedia

• The first used application of multimedia is document image management. It is primarily intended for scanning documents and retaining their images.

• Another application is image processing. It is also known as Image recognition. It is intended for recognizing objects by analyzing their raster images.

• This application is used for automatic floor inspections and sorting of parts coming out of a manufacturing plant or for guiding robots performing specialized tasks.

The object management system must be capable of indexing, grouping and storing multimedia objects in distributed hierarchial optional storage systems, and accessing these objects on keyed basis.

The Design of the object management system should be capable indexing objects in such a manner that there is no need to maintain multiple storage copies