From business to pleasure, multimedia data is omnipresent.
Technological advances create cost-effective solutions in data transfer.
The companies dealing with critical areas, such as content, service creation, production and post-production techniques and user interfaces have shown how great economic growth can result from adoption of new multimedia technologies. MPEG-7 is about the future of media in the 21st century. This is not an overstatement. MPEG-7 provides a comprehensive and flexible framework for describing the content of multimedia. To describe content requires knowledge of its consistent elements, as well as knowledge of interrelations between those elements.