VideoAnnEx: IBM MPEG-7 annotation tool for multimedia indexing and concept learning

Abstract

The VideoAnnEx, a.k.a. IBM MPEG-7 Annotation Tool, assists authors in the task of annotating video sequences with MPEG-7 metadata. Each shot in the video sequence can be annotated with static scene descriptions, key object descriptions, event descriptions, and other lexicon sets. The annotated descriptions are associated with each video shot or regions in the keyframes, and are stored as MPEG-7 XML file. The tool allows customized lexicons to be created, saved, downloaded, and updated. It can also be used to generate storyboards by saving all keyframes using JPEG. An annotation- learning component is encompassed in the tool to speed up the annotation task. 1.