Is It Time for a Moratorium on Metadata?
Ramesh Jain has some interesting comments regarding an article published by Dick Bulterman in the Oct-Dec 04 issue of IEEE Multimedia. Bulterman's agenda:
- Issue a joint proclamation that the DCMI, MPEG-7 and Semantic Web initiatives are all Official Successes and are Ready for Business.
- Issue a second proclamation calling for a general moratorium on metadata.
- Concentrate on locating objects within a range of mixed-media assets based on context-sensitive queries.
- Ask public-spirited citizens worldwide to contribute their favorite photos, audio fragments, or personal videos to create a culturally diverse corpus of 1 million nontext media assets.
- Embark on a multimedia content differentiation competition that will allow a comprehensive but limited set of objects to be identified: people, places, objects, and life events (births, weddings, deaths, and so on). The catch: Any
contributed techniques must apply to multiple encoding formats (pictures, video, audio), and it must include a user interface for managing media classification.
Posted by Chris Hodge at November 8, 2004 12:02 PM
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