MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Standard
MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Standard
Digital Media Value Chain (MPEG-7 Metadata Management) Content value chain:Distribute Sell
Life-cycle:
Metadata layer:DeliverAdaptPackage Search Index
Increase content asset value through repurposing First-class role of metadata (smart bits) throughout digital media lifecycle Central role of metadata management (XML schemas, catalog records, ontologies) MPEG-7 for content description MPEG-21 for packaging, rights mgmt, transactions Create: search, annotate, extract Manage: index, annotate, collate Transact/Distribute: search, package, adapt
Store
Plan
Search
Metadata Mgmt.
Annotate
Maintain
Annotate
Author Extract Collate
Create
Produce
Digital media metadata access functions:
Acquire
Organize
MPEG-7 Multimedia Indexing and Searching MPEG-7 Indexing & Searching:Digital Media RespositoryMPE G-7 SC HEM A
M PEG-7 Search Engi ne (X M L M etad ata)
Semantics-based (people, places, events, objects, scenes) Content-based (color, texture, motion, melody, timbre) Metadata (title, author, dates)
Sounds like ... Looks like ...
M odel Qu ery
Similarity Se arch
Sema ntics Que ry
MPEG-7 Search
User
MPEG-7 Model D escriptio ns
MPEG-7 D escriptors
MPEG-7 S emantics D escrip tions
NetworkI BM Conte nt M anager (Library Serve r & Obje ct S erver) MPEG-7 Metadata Storage
Pervasive Usage Environment MPEG-7 Processing
MPEG-7 Access & Delivery: Media personalization Adaptation & summarization Usage environment (user preferences, devices, context)
(XML for Multimedia Content Description) MPEG-7 Normative elements:Compression Coding MPEG-1,-2,-4 Transmission Retrieval Streaming Management Filtering
MPEG-7 Overview
Descriptors and Description Schemes DDL for defining Description Schemes Extensible for application domains DDL DS D D DS DApplication domaini.e., Medical imaging Remotesensing images Surveillance video Computer animations and graphics
Acquisition Authoring Editing MPEG-7 Browsing NavigationEvent Tree
MPEG-7 Standard
Searching IndexingTime Axis Shot1
D D
DS
Segment TreeShot2 Shot3
Segment 1 Sub-segment 1
Introduction Summary
Rich, highly granular multimedia content description:
Sub-segment 2
Program logo
Sub-segment 3
Studio Overview News Presenter
Video segments, moving regions, shots, frames, Audio-visual features: color, texture, shape, Semantics: people, events, objects, scenes,
Sub-segment 4 segment 2
News ItemsSegment 3
International Clinton Case Pope in Cuba National
Segment 4
Segment 5
Twins Sports Closing
Segment 6
Reference Region Motion
Reference Region Motion
Reference Region Motion
Segment 7
Harmonization of Multimedia Metadata StandardsMPEG-7, SMEF, P/Meta, SMPTE, Dublin Core, TV-Anytime, Indecs MPEG-7: Moving Picture Experts Group
SMEF Standard Media Exchange Framework:
Infrastructure standard for Multimedia Metadata Supports interpretation of the informations meaning Supports broad range of applications BBC developed data models for information involved in the Production, Development, Use, and Management of media assets Exchange of program content between high-level business functions of EBU members: Production, Delivery/Broadcast, & Archive Addresses Program Interchange independent of format Interoperable online metadata standards supporting broad range of purposes and business models. SMEF
Dublin Core MPEG-7 DescriptorsMPEG-7 Harmonized Model
P/Meta
P/Meta EBU P/Meta Project:
SMPTE Metadata dictionary & MXF: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative:
SMPTE
TV Anytime MPEG-7 Harmonized Model:
TV-Anytime TV-Anytime Metadata:
Indecs Indecs Metadata Framework
Attractors/descriptors used e.g. in Electronic Program Guides (EPG), or in Web pages to describe content. An international initiative of rights owners creating metadata standards for e-commerce.
Harmonized elements with other standards and existing practices Extensible framework Registration authority for classification schemes, controlled terms, ontologies
MPEG-7 MDS: Free Text Annotation Example The following example gives an MPEG-7 description of a car that is depicted in an image: Car Four wheel motorized vehicle image.jpg
MPEG-7 MDS: Event DS Example The following example gives an MPEG-7 description of the event of handshake between people: Shake hands Person A Person B Handshake Clasping of right hands by two people