The responses to the 'Digital Item Declaration' CfP are due at the January meeting, while the responses for the Digital Item Identification and Description CfP are expected in March. This Draft will be balloted by the ISO member countries. The 7 th part, Conformance Testing, is scheduled to follow the other parts a year later. MPEG has decided to include, in MPEG-7, 'Description Schemes' for Electronic Ink documents. MPEG recognizes the demands arising from the currently emerging markets for pen-based systems and electronic whiteboards.
Electronic ink data occupies a unique place among visual data objects.
It represents handwritten text, formulas, graphics and drawing. Electronic Ink data description involves visual, semantic information as well as the characterization of the dynamic nature of handwriting and drawing. First technology was specified in the MPEG-7 Visual CD that allows extracting descriptors for the purpose of recognizing and identifying faces in images and video. MPEG intends to standardize extended and improved face descriptors in a future edition of MPEG-7. Results of the call will be evaluated at the March 2001 MPEG meeting.