ABSTRACT
The recent development of multimedia technologies such as medical diagnosis, imaging techniques, remote sensing, weather forecasting, entertainment, and other services has gained popularity. We can see a vast type of images on the Internet: satellite photos used in weather forecasting, different logos of different companies, fl ags of different companies, and so on. These image collections form different types of database. During the early days of computing, this advancement was similar to the increase in the alphanumeric data that led to the development of a Database Management systems. Traditional Database Management Systems were designed to organize alphanumeric data into interrelated collections so that information retrieval and storage could be done effi ciently. This technology, however, is not well suited to the management of multimedia information, because of the following reasons:
1. There exists a large diversity of data types and formats associated with images, video, and other multimedia data.
