Content Beyond Syllabus Unit V Multimedia Applications
Content Beyond Syllabus Unit V Multimedia Applications
Content Beyond Syllabus Unit V Multimedia Applications
UNIT V
MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS
As more and more audiovisual information becomes available from many sources around the world, many
people would like to use this information for various purposes. This challenging situation led to the need for a
solution that quickly and efficiently searches for and/or filters various types of multimedia material thats interesting
to the user.
For example, finding information by rich-spoken queries, hand-drawn images, and humming improves the
user-friendliness of computer systems and finally addresses what most people have been expecting from computers.
For professionals, a new generation of applications will enable high-quality information search and retrieval. For
example, TV program producers can search with laser-like precision for occurrences of famous events or
references to certain people, stored in thousands of hours of audiovisual records, in order to collect material for a
program. This will reduce program production time and increase the quality of its content.
MPEG-7 is a multimedia content description standard, (to be defined by September 2001), that addresses
how humans expect to interact with computer systems, since it develops rich descriptions that reflect those
expectations. This document gives an introductory overview of the MPEG-7 standard. More information about
MPEG-7 can be found at the MPEG-7 website http://drogo.cselt.it/mpeg/ and the MPEG-7 Industry Focus Group
website http://www.mpeg-7.com. These web pages contain links to a wealth of information about MPEG,
including many publicly available documents, several lists of Frequently Asked Questions and links to other
MPEG-7 web pages.
MPEG-7 is a standard for describing features of multimedia content.
Qualifying MPEG-7
MPEG-7 provides the worlds richest set of audio-visual descriptions.
These descriptions are based on catalogue (e.g., title, creator, rights), semantic (e.g., the who, what, when, where
information about objects and events) and structural (e.g., the colour histogram - measurement of the amount of
colour associated with an image or the timbre of an recorded instrument) features of the AV content and leverages
on AV data representation defined by MPEG-1, 2 and 4.
Comprehensive Scope of Data Interoperability.
MPEG-7 uses XML Schema as the language of choice for content description MPEG-7 will be interoperable with
other leading standards such as, SMPTE Metadata Dictionary, Dublin Core, EBU P/Meta, and TV Anytime.
1.3 The Key Role of MPEG-7
MPEG-7, formally named Multimedia Content Description Inter-face, is the standard that describes
multimedia content so users can search, browse, and retrieve that content more efficiently and effectively than they
could using todays mainly text-based search engines. Its a standard for describing the features of multimedia
content.
MPEG-7 will not standardize the (automatic) extraction of AV descriptions/features. Nor will it specify the
search engine (or any other program) that can make use of the description. It will be left to the creativity and
innovation of search engine companies, for example, to manipulate and massage the MPEG-7-described content into
search indices that can be used by their browser and retrieval tools.
Basic
datatypes
Links & media
localization
Basic
Tools
Models
Basic elements
Navigation &
Access
Content management
Content description
Collections
Summaries
Variations
Content organization
Creation &
Production
Media Usage
Semantic
aspects
Structural
aspects
User
interaction
User
Preferences
Schema
Tools
User
History Views Views
Overview of MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes (DSs)
Feature Search
Extraction Engine
MPEG-7
Description
standardization
Search Engine:
Searching &
filtering
Classification
Manipulation
Summarization
Indexing
MPEG-7 Scope:
Description
Schemes (DSs)
Descriptors (Ds)
Language (DDL)
Ref:
MPEG-7 Concepts
Feature
Extraction:
Content analysis
(D, DS)
Feature extraction
(D, DS)
Annotation tools
(DS)
Authoring (DS)