Digital Media For Machines

The form of communication enabled by the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet is very effective but in general leaves out a wealth of other information that is present in the original (multimedia) message. If the sequence of characters is the transcription of the TV interview with a politician, the…

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a globally network of interconnected information elements represented in a standard form using a dialect of SGML called HyperText Markup Language (HTML), using the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for the transport of information, employing a uniform addressing scheme for locating resources on the Web…

Before starting this page I must warn the reader that MPEG-7 has more elements of abstractness, compared to previous MPEG standards that may make reading it more difficult than other pages. With this warning, let’s start from some definitions that will hopefully facilitare understanding of the MPEG-7 standard. Element Definition Examples…

The Life in ISO page tells about my efforts in overcoming the many obstacles on the road to establishing Subcommittee 29 (SC 29), because of the “lupissimus” nature of the organisations operating under the ISO folds, and make it the video, audio, multimedia and hypermedia coding SC. I did this…

The increased dependency of many users, particularly on mobile devices, has initiated an unstoppable drive, supported by their increasing interaction and processing capability, to pack more functionalities in those devices. In some cases the functionality is entirely confined within the device, but in other cases the ability to interact with…

Metadata are an important ingredient for any business strategy in the media field, both at the industry and individual company level. At the industry level this can be seen from the large number of initiatives that have developed or are still in the process of developing metadata standards, because it is…

My sudden, although not unplanned, departure from DAVIC gave me the opportunity to realise some ideas I had been mulling over since some time. With MPEG and DAVIC I had dealt with machines that process data in a sophisticated, well-programmed way, but as intermediaries between humans or, at most, between…