Multimedia Mining Research – An Overview

Multimedia data mining is a popular research domain which helps to extract interesting knowledge from multimedia data sets such as audio, video, images, graphics, speech, text and combination of several types of data sets.Normally, multimedia data are categorized into unstructured and semi-structured data.These data are stored in multimedia databases and multimedia mining is used to find useful information from large multimedia database system by using various multimedia techniques and powerful tools.This paper provides the basic concepts of multimedia mining and its essential characteristics.Multimedia mining architectures for structured and unstructured data, research issues in multimedia mining, data mining models used for multimedia mining and applications are also discussed in this paper.It helps the researchers to get the knowledge about how to do their research in the field of multimedia mining.