Towards the Integration of Metaverse and Multimedia Information Retrieval

Multimedia Information Retrieval is the field of indexing and retrieval of multimedia content objects. The meta-verse is a collection of virtual worlds, build from multimedia. We examined the intersection of both and identified relevant use cases. In this paper, we present two use case classes which reveal challenges in the integration of MMIR and the metaverse. The first use case class addresses the use of MMIR from the metaverse, the second describes metaverse recordings as a new type of multimedia, required to be supported by MMIR. For the integration, first, we propose a generic architecture to integrate multimedia in the metaverse. Second, we describe our integration approach of the new type of metaverse multimedia into Multimedia Information Retrieval systems.