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Summary of MPEG standards and their movement toward content-based

Figure 1.5.
representation.

content-based processing. Our work is focused on visual communication
and video standards provide the language we require for communication.

5. THE MPEG STANDARDS
Now that we have outlined our technologies, we present the language
of content-based video processing, the standards of Motion Picture Ex-
perts' Group (MPEG) [Chiariglione, 1997] that support the media-based
goals of content-based video processing.
In 1988, the MPEG committee was established to promote a standard-
ization of video data. The MPEG committee neither builds systems nor
writes code, but proposes universal standards for expressing video con-
tent (See Figure 1.5). By limiting the scope of MPEG to syntactic level,