Cottontail DB: An Open Source Database System for Multimedia Retrieval and Analysis
Ralph Gasser, Luca Rossetto, Silvan Heller, Heiko Schuldt · 2020
Multimedia retrieval and analysis are two important areas in "Big data" research. They have in common that they work with feature vectors as proxies for the media objects themselves. Together with metadata such as textual descriptions or numbers, these vectors describe a media object in its entirety, and must therefore be considered jointly for both storage and retrieval.