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 (204) a classification task concerning at least one audiovisual object to a descriptive method that is used to create the description, generating (208) a set of probabilities from a result of the classification task, and measuring (210) an entropy of the result using the set of probabilities.
A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING THE QUALITY OF DESCRIPTORS AND DESCRIPTION SCHEMES