Video analysis for universal multimedia messaging

Multimedia messaging is expected to become a major application for next generation mobile computing and communication devices. Heterogeneous capabilities of these devices, however require adaptation of multimedia messages before rendering on any specific device. To achieve this in case of video messages, video analysis has to be performed to extract the structure of the video and control the message adaptation. This paper describes the universal multimedia messaging scenario and presents a short overview of existing video structuring approaches. A computationally efficient method for analyzing a video message in this scenario is introduced and a prototype for universal multimedia messaging conforming to the emerging MPEG-7 standard is outlined.