Method and apparatus for measuring the quality of descriptors and description schemes

摘要

A method and apparatus for determining quality of a description are described. According to one embodiment, an exemplary method for determining quality of a description includes posing a classification task concerning at least one audiovisual object to a descriptive method that is used to create the description, generating a set of probabilities from a result of the classification task, and measuring an entropy of the result using the set of probabilities.