Applicability of MPEG-7 Descriptors to Film Heritage

High-level metadata provide a way to manage, organize and retrieve multimedia data using content descriptions. Within this context, the MPEG-7 semantic description scheme provides tools for storing expressive and interpretable high-level metadata. Despite the flexibility of the MPEG-7 standard, there are very few applications on areas such as Film Heritage. This paper presents the implementation of a user-friendly tool for MPEG-7 based semantic indexing of audio-visual content provided by some European cities with a strong connection with the film sector.