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Tourism is a strong and important economic factor for many countries around the world. In the context of ubiquitous computing, tourism became a valuable application area which resulted in a broad range of business solutions. In this category, one can find solutions that provide navigation support for outdoor activities or point of interest (e.g., landmarks or restaurants) information for unknown places...
One of the latest developments of the MPEG committee is the Query Format for search and retrieval of multimedia content. This language constitutes the interface between a client and a search engine for searching multimedia data. Another possible scenario is the use of a service provider, which accepts and understands a query from a client and forwards parts of the query to one or more specific databases...
The growth of multimedia is increasing the need for standards for accessing and searching distributed repositories. The moving picture experts group (MPEG) is developing the MPEG query format (MPQF) to standardize this interface as part of MPEG-7. The objective is to make multimedia access and search easier and interoperable across search engines and repositories. This article describes the MPQF and...
Today the availability of digital media content is well established and widespread. Not only commercial content distribution is a big market, but also user driven digital multimedia content is produced and shared in big communities. One of the metadata standards that has been established to describe multimedia content via metadata is MPEG-7. This international standard facilitates many application...
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