Description of Structural Aspects of Content

Segment DS -- a segment tree

-- describing the result of a spatial, temporal or spatio-temporal partition of the content

SegmentRelation DS -- a segment tree

describing addtional spatio-temporal relationships among segments

Decomposition

-- recursive

-- connected or nonconnected

-- A sgement may be decomposed into various media sources

-- the union of the sub-segments is spatio-temporally contained in their ancestors

Examples

temporal and spatial segments:

connected and nonconnected:

segment decomposition:

image segments with still regions:

video segments and regions for SegmentRelationship Graph of Fig. 8 :

Segment Relationship Graph