John Wiley, 2002. — 400 p.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the new ISOIMPEG-7 standard. The individual chapters are written by experts who have actively participated and contributed to the development of the standard. The chapters are organized in an intuitive way, with clear explanations of the underlying tools and technologies contributing to the standard. A large number of illustrations and working demonstrations should make this book a valuable resource for a wide spectrum of readers - from graduate students and researchers interested in the state-of-the-art media analysis technology to practicing engineers interested in implementing the standard.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the principles and concepts involved in a complete chain of AV material indexing, metadata description (based on the MPEG-7 standard), information retrieval and browsing. The book offers a practical step-by-step walk through of the components, from systems to schemas to audio-visual descriptors. It addresses the selection of the multimedia features to be described, the organization and structuring of the description, the language to instantiate the description, as well as the major processing tools used for indexing and retrieval of images and video sequences. The accompanying electronic documentation will include numerous examples and working demonstrations of many of these components.
Researchers and students interested in multimedia database technology will find this book a valuable resource covering a broad overview of the current state of the art in search and retrieval. Practicing engineers in industry will find this book useful in building MPEG-7 compliant systems, as the only resource outside of the MPEG community available to the public at the time of publication.
Section I Introduction.
Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface.
Context, Goals and Procedures.
Section II Systems.
Systems Architecture.
Description Definition Language.
Binary Format.
Section III Description Schemes.
Overview of Multimedia Description Schemes and Schema Tools.
Basic Elements.
Description of a Single Multimedia Document.
Navigation and Summarization.
Content Organization.
User Interaction.
Section IV Visual Descriptors.
Overview of Visual Descriptors.
Color Descriptors.
Texture Descriptors.
Shape Descriptors.
Motion Descriptors.
Section V Audio.
Fundamentals of Audio Descriptions.
Spoken Content.
Sound Classification and Similarity.
Section VI Applications.
Search and Browsing.
Mobile Applications.