A Standards-Based Generic Approach for Complex Multimedia Management

This paper presents a standards-based architecture for a complex and generic distributed multimedia scenario, which combines content search and retrieval, DRM, and context-based content adaptation together. It is an innovative and totally generic approach trying to narrow the semantic-gap by integrating a flexible language for multimedia search based on MPEG Query Format (MPQF) standard with the application of video analysis algorithms for the automatic extraction of low-level features and with the use of contextual information.