Distributed Multimedia Database Technologies Supported by MPEG-7 and MPEG-21

QBIC queries, 175

QCIF, see Quarter common intermediate format

QoS, see Quality of service

QT, see Quicktime

Quality of service (QoS), 4

-aware protocols, classes of, 214

end-to-end, 219

guaranteed, 7

management, coding schemes, 205

negotiation, 200

support, 6, 203

Quarter common intermediate format (QCIF), 15

Query

by color similarity, 235

by Humming (QBH), 161

by Image Content, IBM, 158, 159

interface, adaptive, 226

optimization, 131

processing techniques, 142

refinement processing, 177

by semantics, 235

song, 29

vector, lower bound of, 143

Quicktime (QT), 108