If you are a member of MPEG, you may join the Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS) Group by joining its meetings which are held at the MPEG meetings. You may also participate in one of the MDS Ad Hoc Groups (AHGs), subscribe to one of the MDS reflectors, or participate in a Core Experiments (CEs).

The Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS) Group is a working group of MPEG formally established in July, 1999 to develop Multimedia Description Schemes as Part 5 of the MPEG-7 "Multimedia Content Description Interface" standard. The MDS group is currently working on MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standards.

The Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS) Group is made up of about 40-50 people that attend the MPEG meetings and >200 people that participate in the various MDS Group Ad Hoc Group mail reflectors. The members represent a significant diversity of interests including content providers, software companies, hardware manufacturers, research organizations, and academic institutions.

Multimedia Description Schemes refer to specific MPEG-7 metadata structures that are used to describe and annotate multimedia data. The Multimedia Description Schemes are categorized as pertaining to visual, audio, or generic description. In general, the Multimedia Description Schemes can contain MPEG-7 Descriptors and other Description Schemes (DSs) and can be extended for domain-specific applications.

Multimedia Description Schemes provide a way to describe in XML the important concepts related to multimedia content. The Multimedia Description Schemes facilitate the searching, indexing and filtering of multimedia data. Many of the multimedia concepts are defined in the MPEG-7 Principal Concepts List. The Description Schemes (DSs) are designed to describe both the generic aspects of multimedia content management and the specific features of multimedia content.

Description Schemes (DSs) are defined using the MPEG-7 Description Definition Language (DDL). DDL is based on XML-schema. DDL allows the creation and extension of DSs.

Multimedia Description Schemes provide a standard set of data types and description structures needed for generating XML descriptions of multimedia content. The descriptions are human-readable and can be searched, transmitted and filtered in applications that deal with multimedia data.

The full set of Multimedia Description Schemes, which are related to each other through linking, form a data model or schema for multimedia content description. At both the conceptual- and implementation-levels, the data model is object-oriented and employs modeling principals such as generalization, association, aggregation and spatio-temporal composition. The instantiation of the Description Schemes (DSs) results in description data that is in XML format.

Description Schemes (DSs) can be used for searching, filtering and browsing multimedia material. Since they provide a more complex data model for content description than Descriptors, they are particularly useful in producing rich descriptions of the multimedia content that involve a number of Descriptors and DSs.

The MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS) specification advanced to the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) stage in July, 2001. The MPEG-7 International Standard is currently under production by ISO. Proposals are currently being made for new tools for MPEG-7 MDS version 2.

The Multimedia Description Schemes are validated using one of two procedures depending on the type of Description Scheme (DS). First, the specific DSs related to content management, creation, production and usage go through a "harmonization" process in which the important concepts for description are identified and verified in other multimedia data standards and existing practices.

Many Description Schemes (DSs) are computed automatically by processing the multimedia data directly, such as by using feature extraction algorithms or content analysis methods. Other descriptions are generated manually by human annotation or by processing external metadata related to the multimedia material.

The MPEG Description Definition Language (DDL) can be used to define, extend and generate new Description Schemes (DSs) as shown in the following picture. By using the object-oriented aspects of the DS model, it is possible to extend the DSs to develop customized, application specific DSs that are outside of the MPEG-7 standard.

Although there is no formally stated distinction, generally, MPEG-7 Descriptors address the low-level perceptual features of multimedia data and are meant to be extracted automatically. In many cases Descriptors correspond to the perceptual attributes of multimedia data and its regions and segments, such as to describe the color of a region.

First of all, it is not too late to propose new Multimedia Description Schemes. Work on MPEG-7 MDs version 2 is underway. The standardization process requires that an initial proposal be made to MPEG for the specific Description Scheme (DS). The presentation made to the MPEG Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS) Group should identify sufficient reason and evidence for needing the DS.

The Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) of the MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes includes many Description Schemes (DSs), which have been validated in the work of the Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS) Group since 1999. A number of additional DSs are currently being examined in the process of core experimentation for possible inclusion in MPEG-7 MDS version 2.0.

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A Multimedia Description Scheme Core Experiment (CE) is a particular kind of experiment in which competing proposals for Description Schemes (DSs) are compared. The situation may arise when a new proposal is made with the intention of revising, replacing, or removing a DS that is in the MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS) Working Draft (WD). A CE represents a head-to-head competition in which the alternative proposals are evaluated based on the comparative advantages.

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