Information technology — Media context and control — Part 3: Sensory information

ISO/IEC 23005-3:2011 specifies the syntax and semantics of description schemes and descriptors that represent sensory information. Its purpose is to enhance the experience of users while consuming media resources.

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INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 23005-3
First edition
2011-08-01

Information technology — Media context
and control —
Part 3:
Sensory information
Technologies de l'information — Contrôle et contexte de supports —
Partie 3: Information sensorielle




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INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 23005-3
First edition
2011-08-01


Information technology — Media context
and control —
Part 3:
Sensory information
Technologies de l'information — Contrôle et contexte de supports —
Partie 3: Information sensorielle





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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction.v
1 Scope.1
2 Normative references.2
3 Terms, definitions, symbols, and abbreviated terms .2
3.1 Terms and definitions .2
3.2 Symbols and abbreviated terms .3
4 Schema documents.3
4.1 Use of prefixes.4
4.2 Sensory effects description language .4
4.3 Introduction.4
4.4 Validation.4
4.5 Processing .5
4.6 Basic building blocks.5
5 Sensory effect vocabulary.21
5.1 Introduction.21
5.2 Validation.21
5.3 Schema wrapper.21
5.4 Light effect .22
5.5 Flash effect.24
5.6 Temperature effect .25
5.7 Wind effect .26
5.8 Vibration effect .27
5.9 Spraying effect.28
5.10 Scent effect .30
5.11 Fog effect.31
5.12 Color correction effect.32
5.13 Rigid body motion effect .35
5.14 Passive kinesthetic motion effect.48
5.15 Passive kinesthetic force effect.49
5.16 Active kinesthetic effect .51
5.17 Tactile effect.52
Annex A (informative) Intended Usage of Sensory Information .56
Annex B (informative) Schema documents.57
Annex C (informative) Patent statements.67
Bibliography.68

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Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical
Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of
ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees
established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEC
technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental
and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information
technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1.
International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
The main task of the joint technical committee is to prepare International Standards. Draft International
Standards adopted by the joint technical committee are circulated to national bodies for voting. Publication as
an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the national bodies casting a vote.
ISO/IEC 23005-3 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology,
Subcommittee SC 29, Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information.
ISO/IEC 23005 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology — Media context
and control:
⎯ Part 1: Architecture
⎯ Part 2: Control information
⎯ Part 3: Sensory information
⎯ Part 4: Virtual world object characteristics
⎯ Part 5: Data formats for interaction devices
⎯ Part 6: Common types and tools
⎯ Part 7: Conformance and reference software
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Introduction
The usage of multimedia content is becoming omnipresent in our everyday life, in terms of both consumption
and production. On the one hand, professional content is provided to the end user in high-definition quality,
streamed over heterogeneous networks, and consumed on a variety of different devices. On the other hand,
user-generated content overwhelms the Internet with multimedia assets being uploaded to a wide range of
available Web sites. That is, the transparent access to multimedia content, which is also referred to as
Universal Multimedia Access (UMA), seems to be technically feasible. However, UMA mainly focuses on the
end-user devices and network connectivity issues, but it is the user who ultimately consumes the content.
Hence, the concept of UMA has been extended to take the user into account, which is generally referred to as
Universal Multimedia Experience (UME).
However, the consumption of multimedia assets can also stimulate senses other than vision or hearing,
e.g., olfaction, mechanoreception, equilibrioception, or thermoception. That is, in addition to the audio-visual
content of, e.g., a movie, other senses shall also be stimulated giving her/him the sensation of being part of
the particular media which shall result in a worthwhile, informative user experience.
This motivates the annotation of the media resources with metadata as defined in this part of ISO/IEC 23005,
which steers appropriate devices capable of stimulating these other senses.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
draw attention to the fact that it is claimed that compliance with this document may involve the use of patents.
ISO and the IEC take no position concerning the evidence, validity and scope of those patent rights.
The holders of these patent rights have assured ISO and the IEC that they are willing to negotiate licences
under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions with applicants throughout the world. In this
respect, the statements of the holders of these patent rights are registered with ISO and the IEC. Information
may be obtained from the companies listed in Annex C.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights other than those identified in Annex C. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or
all such patent rights.

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Information technology — Media context and control —
Part 3:
Sensory information
1 Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 23005 specifies the syntax and semantics of description schemes and descriptors that
represent sensory information. Its purpose is to enhance the experience of users while consuming media
resources.
The system architecture is depicted in Figure 1 and the scope of this part of ISO/IEC 23005 is highlighted.
That is, only the information representation that acts as an input to the possible Adaptation VR, as defined in
ISO/IEC 23005-1, is specified in this part of ISO/IEC 23005.
NOTE 1 The actual Adaptation VR is deliberately informative and left open for industry competition.

Figure 1 — System Architecture
NOTE 2 Additional informative information can be found in Annex A.
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2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the specification of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO/IEC 15938-5, Information technology — Multimedia content description interface — Part 5: Multimedia
description schemes
ISO/IEC 21000-7:2007, Information technology — Multimedia framework (MPEG-21) — Part 7: Digital Item
Adaptation
ISO/IEC 23005 (all parts), Information technology — Media context and control
IETF RFC 2045, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies,
IETF Request for Comments: 2045, November 1996
IETF RFC 3986, Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax, IETF Request For Comments: 3986,
January 2005
W3C XML, Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1, Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 16 August 2006,
edited in place 29 September 2006
W3C XMLSCHEMA, XML Schema Part 1: Structures and XML Schema, Second Edition W3C
Recommendation, 28 October 2004
W3C XMLSCHEMA, XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes, Second Edition W3C Recommendation, 28 October
2004
3 Terms, definitions, symbols, and abbreviated terms
3.1 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions in ISO/IEC 23005 (all parts) and the following
apply.
3.1.1
digital content provider
entity that acts as the source of digital information of various nature
NOTE The digital content may be provided in real-time or non real-time.
EXAMPLE Digital content from an on-line virtual world, simulation environment, multi user game, broadcasted
multimedia production, peer-to-peer multimedia production, or packaged content like a DVD or game.
3.1.2
sensory information
standardized representation format of ISO/IEC 23005 in the standardization area B as defined in
ISO/IEC 23005-1
EXAMPLE Sensory effect metadata, haptic (kinesthetic/tactile) information, emotion information, avatar information.
3.1.3
sensory effect metadata
defines the description schemes and descriptors to represent sensory effects
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3.1.4
sensory effect
effect to augment perception by stimulating human senses in a particular scene of a multimedia application
EXAMPLE Scent, wind, light, haptic (kinesthetic-force, stiffness, weight, friction, texture, widget (button, slider,
joystick); tactile: air-jet, suction pressure, thermal, current, vibration. Combinations of tactile display can also provide
directional, shape information.
3.1.5
adaptation VR
entity that can process the sensory information in order to be consumed within the real world’s context
NOTE This may include the adaptation or transformation of the sensory information according to the capabilities of
real world devices or the preferences of the user. A specification of these capabilities and preferences can be found in
ISO/IEC 23005-2.
3.2 Symbols and abbreviated terms
For the purpose of this document, the symbols and abbreviated terms given in the following apply:
DIA  digital item adaptation (ISO/IEC 21000-7)
MPEG-21 multimedia framework (ISO/EC 21000)
MPEG-7 multimedia content description interface (ISO/IEC 15938)
SEDL sensory effects description language
SEM sensory effect metadata
SEV sensory effects vocabulary
UMA universal multimedia access
UME universal multimedia experience
XML extensible mark-up language
XSI  XML streaming instructions
4 Schema documents
In the main text of this specification, the syntax of description schemes and descriptors is provided whenever
possible as a single schema document.
In some cases though, and in particular for the clause 5, the syntax of description schemes and descriptors is
provided as a collection of schema snippets imbricated with other text. In order to form a valid schema
document, these schema components should be gathered in a same document with the schema wrapper
provided at the head of the clause. For better readability, the relevant schema documents are provided in the
Annex B, but as non-normative information.
In all cases, each schema document has a version attribute, the value of which is "ISO/IEC 23005-3".
Furthermore, an informative identifier is given as the value of the id attribute of the schema component. This
identifier is non-normative and used as a convention in this specification to reference another schema
document. In particular, it is used for the schemaLocation attribute of the include and import schema
components.
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4.1 Use of prefixes
For clarity, throughout this Part of ISO/IEC 23005, consistent namespace prefixes are used.
"xsi:" prefix is not normative. It is a naming convention in this document to refer to an element of the
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance namespace.
"xml:" and "xmlns:" are normative prefixes defined in [1]. The prefix “xml:” is by definition bound to
"http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace". The prefix “xmlns:” is used only for namespace bindings and
is not itself bound to any namespace name.
All other prefixes used in either the text or examples of this specification are not normative, e.g., “sedl:”,
“sev:”, “dia:”, “si:”, “mpeg7:”.
In particular, most of the informative examples in this specification are provided as XML fragments without the
normally required XML document declaration and, thus, miss a correct namespace binding context declaration.
In these descriptions fragments the different prefixes are bound to the namespaces as given in the following
table.
Table 1 — Mapping of prefixes to namespaces in examples and text.
Prefix Corresponding namespace
ct urn:mpeg:mpeg-v:2010:01-CT-NS
sedl urn:mpeg:mpeg-v:2010:01-SEDL-NS
sev urn:mpeg:mpeg-v:2010:01-SEV-NS
dia urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-DIA-NS
si urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-DIA-XSI-NS
mpeg7 urn:mpeg:mpeg7:schema:2004
xsi http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
xsd http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema

Unlike the informative descriptions examples, the normative specification of the syntax of tools in XML
Schema follows the namespace binding context defined in the relevant schema declaration such as the one
defined in 5.3.
4.2 Sensory effects description language
4.3 Introduction
This Clause specifies the syntax and semantics of the sensory effects description language (SEDL) which
provides basic building blocks for the authoring of sensory effect metadata.
4.4 Validation
Validating a document against the SEDL schema (as specified in W3C XMLSCHEMA) is necessary, but not
sufficient, to determine its validity with respect to SEDL. After a document is validated against the SEDL
schema, it shall also be subjected to additional validation rules. These additional rules are given below in the
descriptions of the elements to which they pertain.
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4.5 Processing
The processing model for the sensory effect metadata is defined as an XML processor (as specified by W3C
XML) and the utilization of the elements and attributes as defined in the subsequent (Sub)clauses.
NOTE The processing of the sensory effect metadata may follow existing XML decoding/parsing models such as the
Document Object Model (DOM) or the Simple API for XML (SAX).
The time information that may be associated to sensory effects may be used for the synchronization with
respect to other media assets.
EXAMPLE These other media assets may be video and/or audio.
4.6 Basic building blocks
4.6.1 Introduction
This Subclause specifies the syntax and semantics of the basic building blocks for authoring sensory effect
metadata.
This Part of ISO/IEC 23005 adopts the XML streaming instructions (XSI) as defined in ISO/IEC 21000-7 for
the purpose of identifying process units and associating time information to them. In this context, a process
unit is defined as a well-formed fragment of XML-based metadata that can be consumed as such and to which
time information may be attached, indicating the point in time when it becomes available for consumption. A
process unit is specified by one element named anchor element and by a process unit mode indicating how
other connected elements are aggregated to this anchor to compose the process unit. Depending on the
mode, the anchor element is not necessarily the root of the process unit. Anchor elements are ordered
according to the navigation path of the XML document. Process units may overlap, i.e. some elements
(including anchor elements) may belong to several process units. Additionally, the content provider may
require that a given process unit be encoded as a random access point, i.e. that the resulting access unit does
not require any other access units to be decoded. The syntax and semantics of the XML streaming
instructions is fully specified in 8.6 of ISO/IEC 21000-7:2007.
In addition to the XML streaming instructions, this standard adopts the following basic time model for sensory
effects metadata which is depicted in Figure 2.

Figure 2 — Time model for sensory effect metadata
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Each effect may be activated (i.e., t ) and deactivated (i.e., t ) at certain points in time. The deactivation of an
0 3
effect may be explicitly defined (i.e., activate="false") or indicated by means of a duration attribute
during activation (i.e., t−t ). Furthermore, each effect may specify a fade-in (i.e., t−t ) or fade-out (i.e., t−t )
3 0 1 0 3 2
time within which the corresponding effect shall reach its specified intensity.
NOTE The actual implementation of some effects may require one or more elements as defined in the following. An
example implementation of Figure 2 using the syntax as defined in the following is provided in 4.6.12.
4.6.2 Schema wrapper
The syntax of description tools specified in this clause is provided as a collection of schema components,
consisting notably in type definitions and element declarations. In order to form a valid schema document,
these schema components should be gathered in a same document with the following declaration defining in
particular the target namespace and the namespaces prefixes.

 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
 xmlns:sedl="urn:mpeg:mpeg-v:2010:01-SEDL-NS"
 xmlns:mpeg7="urn:mpeg:mpeg7:schema:2004"
 xmlns:si="urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-DIA-XSI-NS"
 xmlns:dia="urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-DIA-NS"
 xmlns:ct="urn:mpeg:mpeg-v:2010:01-CT-NS"
 targetNamespace="urn:mpeg:mpeg-v:2010:01-SEDL-NS"
 elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified"
 version="ISO/IEC 23005-3" id="MPEG-V-SEDL.xsd">

  schemaLocation="http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/MPEG-
7_schema_files/mpeg7-v2.xsd"/>
  schemaLocation="http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/MPEG-
21_schema_files/dia-2nd/XSI-2nd.xsd"/>
  schemaLocation="http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/MPEG-
21_schema_files/dia-2nd/UED-2nd.xsd"/>
 


Additionally, the following line should be appended to the resulting schema document in order to obtain a well-
formed XML document.



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4.6.3 Base datatypes and elements
4.6.3.1 Syntax
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
  
       use="optional"/>
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
   
    
   
   
  
 

 
 
 
 
  
           use="optional"/>
 
 
  
   
   
   
   
  
 
 
  
   
   
  
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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4.6.3.2 Semantics
Semantics of the SEMBaseAttributes:
Name Definition
activate
Describes whether the sensory effect shall be activated. A value of true
means the sensory effect shall be activated and false means the sensory
effect shall be deactivated.
duration
Describes the duration according to the time scheme used. The time
scheme used shall be identified by means of the si:absTimeScheme and
si:timeScale attributes respectively.
fade
Describes the fade time according to the time scheme used within which the
defined intensity shall be reached. The time scheme used shall be
identified by means of the si:absTimeScheme and si:timeScale
attributes respectively.
alt
Describes an alternative sensory effect identified by URI.
NOTE 1 The alternative might point to a sensory effect – or list of sensory effects
– within the same description or an external description.
NOTE 2 The alternative might be used in case the original sensory effect cannot
be processed.
EXAMPLE 1 The alternative sensory effect is chosen because the original
intended sensory effect cannot be processed due to lack of devices supporting this
sensory effect.
priority Describes the priority for sensory effects with respect to other sensory
effects in the same group of sensory effects sharing the same point in time
when they should become available for consumption. A value of one
indicates the highest priority and larger values indicate lower priorities.
NOTE 3 The priority might by used to process sensory effects – defined within a
group of sensory effects – according to the capabilities of the adaptation VR.
EXAMPLE 2 The adaptation VR processes the individual sensory effects of a
group of sensory effects according to their priority in descending order due to its
limited capabilities. That is, sensory effects with low priority might get lost.
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Name Definition
location
Describes the location from where the sensory effect is expected to be
received from the user’s perspective according to the x-, y-, and z-axis as
depicted in Figure 3.

Figure 3 — Location model for sensory effect metadata and reference
coordinate system
A classification scheme that may be used for this purpose is the
LocationCS as defined in Annex A of ISO/IEC 23005-6. The terms from
the LocationCS shall be concatenated with the “:” sign in order of the x-,
y-, and z-axis to uniquely define a location within the three-dimensional
space.
For referring to a group of locations, a wild card mechanism may be
employed using the "*" sign.
EXAMPLE 4 urn:mpeg:mpeg-v:01-SI-LocationCS-
NS:center:middle:front defines the location as follows: center on the x-axis,
middle on the y-axis, and front on the z-axis. That is, it describes all sensory effec
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