Editing MPEG-7 (section)

==Introduction==

MPEG-7 is intended to complement the previous [[MPEG]] standards, by standardizing multimedia metadata -- information about the content, not the content itself.  MPEG-7 can be used independently of the other MPEG standards - the description might even be attached to an analog movie. The representation that is defined within MPEG-4, i.e. the representation of audio-visual data in terms of objects, is however very well suited to what will be built on the MPEG-7 standard. This representation is basic to the process of categorization. In addition, MPEG-7 descriptions could be used to improve the functionality of previous MPEG standards. With these tools, we can build an MPEG-7 Description and deploy it. According to the requirements document,1 "a Description consists of a Description Scheme (structure) and the
set of Descriptor Values (instantiations) that
describe the Data." A Descriptor Value is "an instantiation of a Descriptor for a given data set (or subset thereof)."
The Descriptor is the syntactic and semantic definition of the content.
Extraction algorithms are inside the scope of the standard because their standardization is not required to allow interoperability.