Multimedia Semantics — The Role of Metadata

✍ Scribed by Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner (auth.), Michael Granitzer, Mathias Lux, Marc Spaniol (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 101
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Research in the field of multimedia metadata is especially challenging: Lots of scientific publications and reports on research projects are published every year and the range of possible applications is diverse and huge. This book gives an overview on fundamental issues within the field of multimedia metadata focusing on contextualized, ubiquitous, accessible and interoperable services on a higher semantic level. The book in hand provides a selection of basic articles being a base for multimedia metadata research. Furthermore it presents a view on the current state of the art in multimedia metadata research. It provides information from versatile applications domains (Broadcasting, Interactive TV, E-Learning and Social Software) such as:

* Multimedia on the Web 2.0
* Databases for Multimedia (Meta-)Data
* Multimedia Information Retrieval & Evaluation
* Multimedia Metadata Standards
* Ontologies for Multimedia

The multimedia metadata community (www.multimedia-metadata.info), wherefrom this book originated, brings together experts from research and industry in the area of multimedia metadata research and application development. The community bridges the gap between an academic research and an industrial scale development of innovative products. By summarizing the work of the community this book contributes to the aforementioned fields by addressing these topics for a broad range of readers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Dynamic and Distributed Multimedia Content Adaptation based on the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework*....Pages 3-23
From MPEG-4 Scene Representation to MPEG-7 Description....Pages 25-44
Overview of Open Standards for Interactive TV (iTV)....Pages 45-64
Metadata in the Audiovisual Media Production Process....Pages 65-84
Smart Social Software for Mobile Cross-Media Communities....Pages 87-106
Organizing metadata into models and ontologies for lowering annotation costs of a biological image database....Pages 107-126
User-aware adaptation by subjective metadata and inferred implicit descriptors....Pages 127-147
Semantics in Content-based Multimedia Retrieval....Pages 151-174
User-Centered Multimedia Retrieval Evaluation based on Empirical Research....Pages 175-194
Specification of an MPEG-7 Query Format....Pages 195-216
Visualisation Techniques for Analysis and Exploration of Multimedia Data....Pages 219-238
Automatic Extraction, Indexing, Retrieval and Visualization of Multimodal Meeting Recordings for Knowledge Management Activities....Pages 239-261

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Multimedia Information Systems; Semantics