MPEG-7

MPEG-7 is an ISO/IEC standard developed by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group), the committee that also developed the Emmy Award winning standards known as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, and the MPEG-4 standard. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards made interactive video on CD-ROM and Digital Television possible. MPEG-4 is the multimedia standard for the fixed and mobile web enabling integration of multiple paradigms.

MPEG-7, formally named "Multimedia Content Description Interface", offers a comprehensive set of audiovisual Description Tools (the metadata elements and their structure and relationships, that are defined by the standard in the form of Descriptors and Description Schemes) to create descriptions (i.e., a set of instantiated Description Schemes and their corresponding Descriptors at the user's will), which will form the basis for applications enabling effective and efficient access (search, filtering and browsing) to multimedia content.

EXPWAY founders Claude Seyrat and Cédric Thiénot have been instrumental in MPEG-7 standardization efforts, both for data modelisation (using XML and XML Schema) and for the data transmission and compression specifications. They participated actively to the design of BiM, the binary standard for XML data in MPEG-7. Claude Seyrat was the main editor of the V 1 systems specification and chairs the systems and DDL ad-hoc groups.
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