Multimedia requires special data management techniques for the representation of color, time, the concept of semantics, and other underlying information can be very different from one another. This book on multimedia data management techniques offer an integrated perspective on the efficiency and effectiveness of retrieval. After introducing the model for multimedia data (images, video, audio, text, and web) and to their features, such as color, texture, shape, and time, this book presents the data structures and algorithms that help to store, index, cluster, classify, and access to common data representation.