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MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Standard

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Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management

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Abstract

In this chapter, we describe the recently developed MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Interface Standard. MPEG-7 provides a standardized metadata system for describing multimedia content using XML. MPEG-7 allows interoperable indexing, searching, and retrieval of video, images, audio, and other forms of multimedia data. In this chapter, we introduce the description tools standardized by MPEG-7 and examine their use in multimedia applications.

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  1. Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

    David Dagan Feng PhD  & Wan-Chi Siu PhD  & 

  2. School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, Australia

    David Dagan Feng PhD

  3. Microsoft Research, Asia, China

    Hong-Jiang Zhang PhD

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Smith, J. (2003). MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Standard. In: Feng, D.D., Siu, WC., Zhang, HJ. (eds) Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05300-3_6

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