Documentation for MDS/StateMember

Technique Semantic State and Membership functions
Document MPEG-7 FDIS, MDS, Clause 12
Name Hawley K. Rising III, Sony MPD-NSC-A, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
EMail hawley.rising@am.sony.com
Type Application
External Libraries None
Related Ds/DSs SemanticBase, Semantic, Concept, SemanticRelation
Used Ds/DSs SemanticState, Semantic, Concept, SemanticRelation
Input Input is a list of existing Semantic DS descriptions, which
have SemanticStates, and Membership Functions.
Extraction NA
Client Appl Search & Retrieval
Summary This component takes as query a description which has a
SemanticState with a membership function. It compares against
other descriptions of the same type, and returns the results.
It also updates all the reading for all elements of Semantic DS,
since the Semantic component only reads the labels.
Strong Points -
Limitations None
Known Problems None
Parameters None