Probabilistic algorithms o er a means of computing that works with the grain of analogue hardware, rather than against it. This paper proposes the use of such an algorithm in applications where the advantages of analogue hardware are most likely to be realised.

Over the last decade, a wide spectrum of (multimedia) content has become available to an increasing number of users who desire to access it through various devices and over heterogeneous networks. Interoperability is the key for enabling transparent and augmented use of (multimedia) content across a wide range of networks and devices. Standardization efforts within the Moving Picture Experts Gr...

To enable the resource discovery of audiovisual documents over the World Wide Web, it will be necessary to define content description standards or metadata standards for complex, multi-layered, time-dependent information-rich audiovisual data streams. In particular, this is the primary goal of the emerging MPEG-7 standard, the “Multimedia Content Description Interface” under development by the ...

information is available today—in digital archives, on the Web, in broadcast data streams, and in personal and professional databases—and this amount continues to grow. Yet, the value of that information depends on how easily we can manage, find, retrieve, access, and filter it. The transition between two millennia abounds with new ways to produce, offer, filter, search, and manage digitized mu...

The Moving Picture’s Experts Group (MPEG) has recently started work on a new standardization effort called the "Multimedia Content Description Interface," also known as MPEG-7. The goal of MPEG-7 is to enable fast and efficient searching and filtering of audio-visual material. The effort is being driven by specific requirements gleaned from a large number of applications related to image, video...

T he past few years have witnessed rapid development and commercialization of visual content identification and search technologies. By now, major Hollywood movie studios and TV networks have adopted video content identification technology to identify, track, and manage their content at the Internet scale. Big Internet search engines, such as Google and Bing, have added content-based visualsimi...

In this thesis, an efficient approach for landscape image classification and matching system based on the MPEG-7 (Moving Picture Expert group) color and shape descriptor. Image classification is the task of deciding whether an image landscape or not. These classifications use the dominant color descriptor method for finding the dominant color in the image. In DCD we examine whole image pixel va...

The continuing convergence of broadcast services and the Internet, the growing popularity of digital and interactive TV, and the growth of user mobility are the main driving forces behind the European IST SAVANT project. SAVANT (Synchronised and Scalable AV content Across NeTworks) aims to advance the convergence of broadcasting and the Internet by developing integrated technologies and simulta...

During the last years a vast number of multimedia databases have been established for search and retrieval of multimedia data, due to large audiovisual storage capacities and efficient compression methods. The metadata format of such databases can be based on the MPEG-7 standard. For the successful and efficient search, a query language for the interaction between client and database is crucial...

This paper presents the core technologies of the Video Signature Tools recently standardized by ISO/IEC MPEG as an amendment to the MPEG-7 Standard (ISO/IEC 15938). The Video Signature is a high-performance content fingerprint which is suitable for desktop-scale to web-scale deployment and provides high levels of robustness to common video editing operations and high temporal localization accur...