Download or read book Distributed Multimedia Database Technologies Supported by MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 written by Harald Kosch and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multimedia system needs a mechanism to communicate with its environment, the Internet, clients, and applications. MPEG-7 provides a standard metadata format for global communication, but lacks the framework to let the various players in a system interact. MPEG-21 closes this gap by establishing an infrastructure for a distributed multimedia frame