METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR METADATA OF FUNCTION AND FUNCTION GROUP SEARCH IN MOVING PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP NETWORK BASED MEDIA PROCESSING

A method of processing media content in Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Network Based Media Processing (NBMP) is performed by at least one processor, and includes performing a function and function group discovery, wherein wildcard search is enabled in the function and function group discovery, transmitting, to a function repository storing one or more functions for processing the media content, a search query for at least one among the one or more functions, based on the search query being transmitted, receiving, from the function repository, a reply identifying the at least one among the one or more functions and including a rank of the at least one among the one or more functions, and processing the media content, using the identified at least one among the one or more functions in an order based on the included rank of the at least one among the one or more functions.