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MTSR 2013: Metadata and Semantics Research pp 152–162Cite as

Storing Metadata as QR Codes in Multimedia Streams

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With the continuous adoption of the web and the increase of connection speeds, people are more and more sharing multimedia content. The main problem that is created by this approach is that the shared content become less and less search-friendly. The information that is shared, cannot be easily queried, so a big part of the web becomes inaccessible. To this end, there is a big shift towards adopting new metadata standards for image and video that can efficiently help with queries over image and videos.

In this work we extend our proposed method of embedding metadata as QR codes in gray scale images, to color video files with a slightly modified algorithm to make the decoding faster. We then examine the experimental results regarding the compressed file size, using a lossless encoding and the distortion of the frames of the video files. Storing the metadata inside the multimedia stream with QR format has several advantages and possible new uses that are going to be discussed.

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  • QR codes
  • video metadata
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  1. Department of Informatics, Piraeus, Greece & Institute for the Management of Information Systems, “Athena” Research Center, University of Piraeus, Greece

    Athanasios Zigomitros

  2. Distributed Systems Group, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, College Green, Dublin, 2, Ireland

    Constantinos Patsakis

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  1. Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou

  2. School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-3360, Chapel Hill, NC

    Jane Greenberg

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Zigomitros, A., Patsakis, C. (2013). Storing Metadata as QR Codes in Multimedia Streams. In: Garoufallou, E., Greenberg, J. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 390. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03437-9_16

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