Technology for Multimedia

Course Description

Establish in 1988 the Motion Picture Group (MPEG) has developed digital audiovisual compression standards that have change the way audiovisual content is produced by manifold industries, deliver through all sort of distribution channels and consumed by a variety of devices. Mpeg 7 will fulfill a key function in the forthcoming evolutionary steps of multimedia. MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) -7 standard deals with:

• Infrastructure standard for Multimedia Metadata
• Supports interpretation of the information's meaning
• Supports broad range of applications

It harmonized elements with other standards and existing practices such as:
• SMEF - Standard Media Exchange Framework, P/Meta - EBU P/Meta Project, SMPTE - Metadata dictionary & MXF, Dublin Core Metadata, TV-Anytime - TV-Anytime Metadata, Indecs - Indecs Metadata Framework

The MPEG-7 descriptions of content include:
• Information describing the creation and production processes of the content (director, title, short feature movie).
• Information related to the usage of the content (copyright pointers, usage history, and broadcast schedule).
• Information of the storage features of the content (storage format, encoding).
• Structural information on spatial, temporal or spatio-temporal components of the content (scene cuts, segmentation in regions, region motion tracking).
• Information about low level features in the content (colors, textures, sound timbres, melody description).
• Conceptual information of the reality captured by the content (objects and events, interactions among objects).
• Information about how to browse the content in an efficient way (summaries, variations, spatial and frequency sub bands ...).
• Information about collections of objects.
• Information about the interaction of the user with the content (user preferences, usage history).

Course Objectives

At the completion of this course, the participants will be able to
• understand MPEG-1. MPEG-2. MPEG-4.
• understand MPEG 7 descriptors .
• to apply the MPEG 7 standard into their work.

It can be used in many applications. Some of them are:
• Architecture, real estate, and interior design (e.g., searching for ideas).
• Broadcast media selection (e.g., radio channel, TV channel).
• Cultural services (history museums, art galleries, etc.).
• Digital libraries (e.g., image catalogue, musical dictionary, bio-medical imaging catalogues, film, video and radio archives).
• E-Commerce (e.g., personalized advertising, on-line catalogues, directories of e-shops).
• Education (e.g., repositories of multimedia courses, multimedia search for support material).
• Home Entertainment (e.g., systems for the management of personal multimedia collections, including manipulation of content, e.g. home video editing, searching a game, karaoke).
• Investigation services (e.g., human characteristics recognition, forensics).
• Journalism (e.g. searching speeches of a certain politician using his name, his voice or his face).
• Multimedia directory services (e.g. Yellow pages, Tourist information, Geographical information systems).
• Multimedia editing (e.g., personalized electronic news service, media authoring).
• Remote sensing (e.g., cartography, ecology, natural resources management).
• Shopping (e.g., searching for clothes that you like).
• Social (e.g. dating services).
• Surveillance (e.g., traffic control, surface transportation, non-destructive testing in hostile environments). Standardization of the control signals outputs.
• Safety control.
• Changing the structure of the databases.
• Spoken language commands interpretations.
• Video camera analysis.
• Video, audio and control devise coordination.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for technical members, engineering staff, workers with interest in multimedia

Course Duration:

Six (6) hours

Student Enrollment:

Minimum 10, Maximum 50

Delivery Method:

Live