Climbing the semantic ladder: towards semantic semi-automatic image annotation using MPEG-7 descriptor schemas

The fast development of innovative tools to create user friendly and effective multimedia libraries, services and environments requires novel concepts to support storage, annotation and retrieval of huge amounts of digital audiovisual data. This article presents a technique to tackle the first instance of the problem in visual digital archives: classification using generic semantic descriptions. As a case study, classification abilities inherent to some important MFEG-7 low-level visual descriptors are explored and quantified.

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