Multimedia information description and search : technology and perspective

  • Kim, Jin-Woong (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Daejon) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Gon (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Daejon) ;
  • Lee, Hankyu (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Daejon) ;
  • Yang, Jae-Woo (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Daejon)
  • Published : 1998.06.01

Abstract

As digital audio video data compression and transmission techniques are matured, huge amount of digital multimedia material is produced and delivered via broadcasting, digital storage media and world-wide web(WWW). Thus it became very important to provide a standardized way of multimedia data content description, so that efficient and effective access and reuse of valuable multimedia information can be possible. In this paper, enabling core technologies and our research directions on this are presented with brief introduction on the scope of the multimedia content description interface, called MPEG-7, in terms of objective, application and requirements.

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