Joo Min Kim

An MPEG-7-based metadata generator and its browser

This paper presents a pair of applications based on MPEG-7, which are the description generator and the browser. The description generator is a semi-automatic tool that allows content providers to produce useful descriptions. Consuming these descriptions, the browser allows to search and browse contents with functionalities such as multi-level highlight browse, keyword/color-based content search and so on. Automatic shot segmentation and artificial text region detection tools are integrated into the description generator for an efficient video indexing.