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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Shirley Chisholm — Unbought and Unbossed

In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.

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MPEG-7

MPEG-7 is a multimedia content description standard. It was standardized in ISO/IEC 15938 (Multimedia content description interface).[1][2][3][4] This description will be associated with the content itself, to allow fast and efficient searching for material that is of interest to the user. MPEG-7 is formally called Multimedia Content Description Interface. Thus, it is not a standard which deals with the actual encoding of moving pictures and audio, like MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. It uses XML to store metadata, and can be attached to timecode in order to tag particular events, or synchronise lyrics to a song, for example.

It was designed to standardize:

  • a set of Description Schemes ("DS") and Descriptors ("D")
  • a language to specify these schemes, called the Description Definition Language ("DDL")
  • a scheme for coding the description

The combination of MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 has been sometimes referred to as MPEG-47.[5]

Introduction

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MPEG-7 is intended to complement the previous MPEG standards, by standardizing multimedia metadata -- information about the content, not the content itself. MPEG-7 can be used independently of the other MPEG standards - the description might even be attached to an analog movie. The representation that is defined within MPEG-4, i.e. the representation of audio-visual data in terms of objects, is however very well suited to what will be built on the MPEG-7 standard. This representation is basic to the process of categorization. In addition, MPEG-7 descriptions could be used to improve the functionality of previous MPEG standards. With these tools, we can build an MPEG-7 Description and deploy it. According to the requirements document,1 "a Description consists of a Description Scheme (structure) and the set of Descriptor Values (instantiations) that describe the Data." A Descriptor Value is "an instantiation of a Descriptor for a given data set (or subset thereof)." The Descriptor is the syntactic and semantic definition of the content. Extraction algorithms are inside the scope of the standard because their standardization is not required to allow interoperability.

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The MPEG-7 (ISO/IEC 15938) consists of different Parts. Each part covers a certain aspect of the whole specification.

MPEG-7 Parts[4][6]
Part Number First public release date (First edition) Latest public release date (edition) Latest amendment Title Description
Part 1 ISO/IEC 15938-1 2002 2002 2006 Systems the architectural framework of MPEG-7, the carriage of MPEG-7 content - TeM (Textual format for MPEG-7) and the binary format for MPEG-7 descriptions (BiM)[7]
Part 2 ISO/IEC 15938-2 2002 2002 Description definition language
Part 3 ISO/IEC 15938-3 2002 2002 2010 Visual
Part 4 ISO/IEC 15938-4 2002 2002 2006 Audio
Part 5 ISO/IEC 15938-5 2003 2003 2015 Multimedia description schemes
Part 6 ISO/IEC 15938-6 2003 2003 2011 Reference software
Part 7 ISO/IEC 15938-7 2003 2003 2011 Conformance testing
Part 8 ISO/IEC TR 15938-8 2002 2002 2011 Extraction and use of MPEG-7 descriptions
Part 9 ISO/IEC 15938-9 2005 2005 2012 Profiles and levels
Part 10 ISO/IEC 15938-10 2005 2005 Schema definition
Part 11 ISO/IEC TR 15938-11 2005 2005 2012 MPEG-7 profile schemas
Part 12 ISO/IEC 15938-12 2008 2012 Query format
Part 13 ISO/IEC 15938-13 2015 2015 Compact descriptors for visual search

Relation between description and content

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Independence between description and content

An MPEG-7 architecture requirement is that description must be separate from the audiovisual content.

On the other hand, there must be a relation between the content and description. Thus the description is multiplexed with the content itself.

On the right side you can see this relation between description and content.

MPEG-7 tools

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Relation between different tools and elaboration process of MPEG-7

MPEG-7 uses the following tools:

  • Descriptor (D): It is a representation of a feature defined syntactically and semantically. It could be that a unique object was described by several descriptors.
  • Description Schemes (DS): Specify the structure and semantics of the relations between its components, these components can be descriptors (D) or description schemes (DS).
  • Description Definition Language (DDL): It is based on XML language used to define the structural relations between descriptors. It allows the creation and modification of description schemes and also the creation of new descriptors (D).
  • System tools: These tools deal with binarization, synchronization, transport and storage of descriptors. It also deals with Intellectual Property protection.

On the right side you can see the relation between MPEG-7 tools.

MPEG-7 applications

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There are many applications and application domains which will benefit from the MPEG-7 standard. A few application examples are:

  • Digital library: Image/video catalogue, musical dictionary.
  • Multimedia directory services: e.g. yellow pages.
  • Broadcast media selection: Radio channel, TV channel.
  • Multimedia editing: Personalized electronic news service, media authoring.
  • Security services: Traffic control, production chains...
  • E-business: Searching process of products.
  • Cultural services: Art-galleries, museums...
  • Educational applications.
  • Biomedical applications.
  • Intelligent multimedia applications that leverage low-level multimedia semantics via formal representation and automated reasoning.[8]

See also

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Limitations

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The MPEG-7 standard was originally written in XML Schema (XSD), which constitutes semi-structured data. For example, the running time of a movie annotated using MPEG-7 in XML is machine-readable data, so software agents will know that the number expressing the running time is a positive integer, but such data is not machine-interpretable (cannot be understood by agents), because it does not convey semantics (meaning), known as the "Semantic Gap." To address this issue, there were many attempts to map the MPEG-7 XML Schema to the Web Ontology Language (OWL), which is a structured data equivalent of the terms of the MPEG-7 standard (MPEG-7Ontos, COMM, SWIntO, etc.). However, these mappings did not really bridge the "Semantic Gap," because low-level video features alone are inadequate for representing video semantics.[9] In other words, annotating an automatically extracted video feature, such as color distribution, does not provide the meaning of the actual visual content.[10]

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References

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  • B.S. Manjunath (Editor), Philippe Salembier (Editor), and Thomas Sikora (Editor): Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface. Wiley & Sons, April 2002 - ISBN 0-471-48678-7
  • Harald Kosch: Distributed Multimedia Database Technologies Supported by MPEG-7 and MPEG-21. CRC Press, January 2004 - ISBN 0-8493-1854-8
  • Giorgos Stamou (Editor) and Stefanos Kollias (Editor): Multimedia Content and the Semantic Web: Standards, Methods and Tools. Wiley & Sons, May 2005 - ISBN 0-470-85753-6
  • Hyoung-Gook Kim, Nicolas Moreau, and Thomas Sikora: MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond: Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval. Wiley & Sons, October 2005 - ISBN 0-470-09334-X
  1. ^ ISO. "ISO/IEC 15938-1:2002 - Information technology -- Multimedia content description interface -- Part 1: Systems". Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  2. ^ MPEG. "About MPEG - Achievements". chiariglione.org. Archived from the original on July 8, 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  3. ^ MPEG. "Terms of Reference". chiariglione.org. Archived from the original on February 21, 2010. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  4. ^ a b MPEG. "MPEG standards - Full list of standards developed or under development". chiariglione.org. Archived from the original on April 20, 2010. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  5. ^ NetworkDictionary. "Complete Protocol dictionary, glossary and reference - M". Archived from the original on 2010-01-01. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
  6. ^ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 (2009-10-30). "MPEG-7 (Multimedia content description interface)". Archived from the original on 2013-12-31. Retrieved 2009-11-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 (October 2004). "MPEG-7 Overview (version 10)". chiariglione.org. Archived from the original on 2010-02-14. Retrieved 2009-11-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "MPEG-7 Ontology". Archived from the original on 1 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  9. ^ Sikos, Leslie F.; Powers, David M.W. (2015). "Knowledge-Driven Video Information Retrieval with LOD". Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval. pp. 35–37. doi:10.1145/2810133.2810141. ISBN 9781450337908. S2CID 16544890.
  10. ^ Boll, Susanne; Klas, Wolfgang; Sheth, Amit (1998). "Overview on Using Metadata to Manage Multimedia Data". Using Metadata to Integrate and Apply Digital Media. McGraw-Hill. p. 3. ISBN 978-0070577350.
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MPEG-7

MPEG-7 is a multimedia content description standard. It was standardized in ISO/IEC 15938 (Multimedia content description interface). This description will be associated with the content itself, to allow fast and efficient searching for material that is of interest to the user. MPEG-7 is formally called Multimedia Content Description Interface. Thus, it is not a standard which deals with the actual encoding of moving pictures and audio, like MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. It uses XML to store metadata, and can be attached to timecode in order to tag particular events, or synchronise lyrics to a song, for example. It was designed to standardize: a set of Description Schemes ("DS") and Descriptors ("D") a language to specify these schemes, called the Description Definition Language ("DDL") a scheme for coding the description The combination of MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 has been sometimes referred to as MPEG-47.

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Description Definition Language

DDL (Description Definition Language) is part of the MPEG-7 standard. It gives an important set of tools for the users to create their own Description Schemes (DSs) and Descriptors (Ds). DDL defines the syntax rules to define, combine, extend and modify Description Schemes and Descriptors.

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MPEG Common Encryption

MPEG Common Encryption (abbreviated MPEG-CENC) refers to a set of two MPEG standards governing different container formats: for ISOBMFF, Common encryption in ISO base media file format files (ISO/IEC 23001-7:2016) for MPEG-TS, Common encryption of MPEG-2 transport streams (ISO/IEC 23001-9:2016) The specifications are compatible, so that conversion between the encrypted formats can happen without re-encryption. They define metadata, specific to each format, about which parts of the stream are encrypted and by which encryption scheme. Each encryption scheme may have different methods to retrieve the decryption key.

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MPEG-A

MPEG-A is a group of standards for composing MPEG systems formally known as ISO/IEC 23000 - Multimedia Application Format, published since 2007. MPEG-A consists of 20 parts, including: MPEG-A Part 1: Purpose for multimedia application formats MPEG-A Part 2: MPEG music player application format MPEG-A Part 3: MPEG photo player application format MPEG-A Part 4: Musical slide show application format MPEG-A Part 5: Media streaming application format MPEG-A Part 6: Professional archival application format MPEG-A Part 7: Open access application format MPEG-A Part 8: Portable video application format MPEG-A Part 9: Digital Multimedia Broadcasting application format MPEG-A Part 10: Surveillance application format MPEG-A Part 11: Stereoscopic video application format MPEG-A Part 12: Interactive music application format MPEG-A Part 13: Augmented reality application format MPEG-A Part 15: Multimedia preservation application format MPEG-A Part 16: Publish/Subscribe Application Format MPEG-A Part 17: Multiple sensorial media application format MPEG-A Part 18: Media linking application format MPEG-A Part 19: Common media application format (CMAF) for segmented media (MPEG CMAF), – a media application format for ABR (adaptive bitrate) media

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Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

Which heavyweight champion was known as the “Brown Bomber”?

Joe Louis.