<title>User preference matching for smart browsing of media contents</title>

Abstract

The last decade witnessed the improvement of strong compression technics over audio-visual data and the development of world wide communications of information. These innovations gave birth to unforeseen requirements like storing these information, indexing and retrieving them for subsequent usages. Standarization of compression of multimedia contents is rapidly accepted as a need for encoding/decoding audio-visual data regardless of machine and environment. However standardization for indexing these materials still remains a puzzle which disables browsing audio-visual data regardless of machine and environment. MPEG-7 standardisation group aims to create the standard syntax to access to multimedia content. This paper puts forward a next step, the extraction of user preferences and matching them with MPEG-7 coded media content for quick and smart browsing.

Content-based access to art paintings

“…Currently five art movements are considered: classicism, impressionism, cubism, expressionism and surrealism. All painting data stored in the database are in XML format, which is also the base language of MPEG-7 [2,3]. Details of query and retrieval can be found in [4].…”

The TV‐trawler project

“…A number of projects [3,4] have investigated the application of MPEG-7 UserPreferences to the search and retrieval of audiovisual archives, but not to the filtering of broadcast streams.…”