DESIGN OF IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM BASED ON XML DATABASE USING EMBEDDED SYSTEM

Recently multimedia has been formed, provided, and shared enough not to compare with the past. due to the proliferation of Internet and the development of hardware relating to multimedia. Accordingly to internationally give a proper expression to metadata of multimedia, the standard of MPEG-7 has been established, and researches for image search among various data of multimedia using MPEG-7 are going on. Thus there are meaning-based search and content-based search in the system of image search. In the former there is a merit that search speed is fast, but technology and accuracy by technical knowledge on the image. In the latter the accuracy of search is decreasing because of not understanding the meaning about image and the intent of users. In this study to solve these problems a search system has been designed by combining the two methods. Also to search and manage image data by handheld devices such as portable PDA or smart phone, a system has been designed applicable to an embedded system. Once this is used, multimedia data can be efficiently searched and utilized by handheld devices.