Acknowledgements
I would like to express our sincere thanks to the Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO) on behalf of the R&D project team. TAO established the Yamagata Video Archive Research Center (YRC) in 1999 for the purpose of developing an archive-based content production system. For 4 years we studied various technologies with that view in mind. In particular, through using both MPEG-7 and Content ID we ended up with some dramatic changes. A global unique identifier like Content ID facilitates the management of content in an integrated fashion and the distribution of content globally. And the MPEG-7 description may bring about the worldwide use of archives because of its easy retrieval. As a result, we have successfully developed the preserving technology, visual retrieval methods, the watermarking technology, remote-editing methods, content distribution system, and so forth. Almost all the results are described in this book.
I also wish to express our gratitude to the Yamagata Multimedia Development Promotion Association (YMDPA), which was established concurrently with YRC to support YRC project. YMDPA collected traditional and historical heritage material in Yamagata and acquired video material related to local events. This video material was of great value to our research and development.
Haruo Hiki
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