TV anytime as an application scenario for MPEG-7

Abstract

The ISO/MPEG group has identified a wide range of application scenarios [1] for their emerging MPEG-7 standard on audio-visual metadata. TV Anytime with their vision of future digital TV services [2] encompasses a large number of them. As TV Anytime has also identified metadata as one of the key requirements to realize their vision, MPEG-7 is the natural candidate to fill that role. Here, we describe technically how metadata for the TV Anytime scenario can be created using MPEG-7.