Table Of ContentSemantic Multimedia and Ontologies
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Yiannis Kompatsiaris Paola Hobson
Editors
Semantic Multimedia
and Ontologies
Theory and Applications
Editors
YiannisKompatsiaris,DiplEng,PhD PaolaHobson,BSc,PhD,MBA
InformaticsandTelematicsInstitute CharteredEngineer
Thermi-Thessaloniki MotorolaLabs
Greece Basingstoke
UK
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Contents
Contributors....................................................... ix
ListofAbbreviations ............................................... xiii
PartI Introduction
1 IntroductiontoSemanticMultimedia.............................. 3
YiannisKompatsiarisandPaolaHobson
PartII MultimediaOntologies,AnalysisandReasoning–Theory
2 MultimediaContentDescriptionUsingSemanticWebLanguages..... 17
Roberto Garc´ıa, Chrisa Tsinaraki, O`scar Celma, and Stavros
Christodoulakis
3 Ontology-Based Reasoning Techniques for Multimedia
InterpretationandRetrieval ..................................... 55
RalfMo¨llerandBerndNeumann
4 IntroducingContextandReasoninginVisualContentAnalysis:An
Ontology-BasedFramework ..................................... 99
Stamatia Dasiopoulou,Carsten Saathoff, PhivosMylonas, Yannis
Avrithis,YiannisKompatsiaris,SteffenStaab,andMichaelG.Strinztis
5 AudioContentAnalysis ..........................................123
Juan Jose´ Burred, Martin Haller, Shan Jin, Amjad Samour,
andThomasSikora
PartIII ApplicationsUsingSemanticWebTechnologies
6 PersonalisedMultimediaSummaries ..............................165
Cathy Dolbear, Paola Hobson, David Vallet, Miriam Ferna´ndez,
Iva´nCantadorandPabloCastells
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7 TheRoleofOntologiesfor3DMediaApplications ..................185
MichelaSpagnuoloandBiancaFalcidieno
8 TheApplicationofSemanticWebTechnologiestoMultimediaData
FusionwithineScience .......................................... 207
JaneHunter,SuzanneLittle,andRonaldSchroeter
Part IV Applications Using Alternative Approaches to Multimedia
Ontologies
9 Mind the Gaps – Finding the Appropriate Dimensional
RepresentationforSemanticRetrievalofMultimediaAssets......... 229
WilliamI.Grosky,RajeevAgrawal,andFarshadFotouhi
10 FillingtheSemanticGapinVideoRetrieval:AnExploration.........253
AlexanderHauptmann,Rong Yan,Wei-Hao Lin, MichaelChristel
andHowardWactlar
PartV Conclusion
11 ConclusionsRelatingtoSemanticMultimediaandOntologies ........281
YiannisKompatsiarisandPaolaHobson
WebResources.....................................................285
Index .............................................................287
Contributors
RajeevAgrawal
KetteringUniversity,Flint,MI,USAandWayneStateUniversity,Detroit,
MI,USA
e-mail:[email protected]
YannisAvrithis
Image Video and Multimedia Laboratory,Schoolof Electrical and Computer
Engineering,NationalTechnicalUniversityofAthens,Athens,Greece
e-mail:[email protected]
JuanJose´Burred
Communication Systems Group, Technische Universita¨t Berlin, Sekr. EN 1,
Einsteinufer17,10587Berlin,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
Iva´nCantador
UniversidadAuto´nomadeMadrid,Madrid,Spain
e-mail:[email protected]
PabloCastells
UniversidadAuto´nomadeMadrid,Madrid,Spain
e-mail:[email protected]
O`scarCelma
MusicTechnologyGroup,UniversitatPompeuFabra,Barcelona,Spain
e-mail:[email protected]
MichaelChristel
SchoolofComputerScience,CarnegieMellonUniversity,Pittsburgh,PA,USA
e-mail:[email protected]
StavrosChristodoulakis
Laboratoryof Distributed Multimedia InformationSystems and Applications
(TUC/MUSIC),TechnicalUniversityofCrete,Chania,Crete,Greece
e-mail:[email protected]
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x Contributors
StamatiaDasiopoulou
MultimediaKnowledgeLaboratory,CentreforResearchandTechnologyHellas,
InformaticsandTelematicsInstitute,Thermi-Thessaloniki,Greece
e-mail:[email protected]
CathyDolbear
OrdnanceSurveyResearchLabs,Southampton,UK
e-mail:[email protected]
BiancaFalcidieno
IstitutodiMatematicaApplicataeTecnologieInformatiche,ConsiglioNazionale
delleRicerche,Genova,Italy
e-mail:[email protected]
MiriamFerna´ndez
UniversidadAuto´nomadeMadrid,Madrid,Spain
e-mail:[email protected]
FarshadFotouhi
WayneStateUniversity,Detroit,MI,USA
e-mail:[email protected]
RobertoGarc´ıa
Human-ComputerInteractionResearchGroup(GRIHO),UniversitatdeLleida,
Lleida,Spain
e-mail:[email protected]
WilliamI.Grosky
UniversityofMichigan-Dearborn,Dearborn,MI,USA
e-mail:[email protected]
MartinHaller
Communication Systems Group, Technische Universita¨t Berlin, Sekr. EN 1,
Einsteinufer17,10587Berlin,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
AlexanderHauptmann
SchoolofComputerScience,CarnegieMellonUniversity,Pittsburgh,PA,USA
e-mail:[email protected]
PaolaHobson
MotorolaLabs,Basingstoke,UK
JaneHunter
School of InformationTechnologyand Electrical Engineering,University of
Queensland,Brisbane,Qld.,Australia
e-mail:[email protected]
Contributors xi
ShanJin
Communication Systems Group, Technische Universita¨t Berlin, Sekr. EN 1,
Einsteinufer17,10587Berlin,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
YiannisKompatsiaris
MultimediaKnowledgeLaboratory,CentreforResearchandTechnology–Hellas,
InformaticsandTelematicsInstitute,Thermi-Thessaloniki,Greece
e-mail:[email protected]
Wei-HaoLin
SchoolofComputerScience,CarnegieMellonUniversity,Pittsburgh,PA,USA
e-mail:[email protected]
SuzanneLittle
CNRISTI,Pisa,Italy
e-mail:[email protected]
RalfMo¨ller
HamburgUniversityofTechnology,Hamburg,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
PhivosMylonas
Image Video and Multimedia Laboratory,Schoolof Electrical and Computer
Engineering,NationalTechnicalUniversityofAthens,Athens,Greece
e-mail:[email protected]
BerndNeumann
UniversityofHamburg,Hamburg,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
CarstenSaathoff
ISWeb–InformationSystemsandSemanticWeb,UniversityofKoblenz,Koblenz,
Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
AmjadSamour
Communication Systems Group, Technische Universita¨t Berlin, Sekr. EN 1,
Einsteinufer17,10587Berlin,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
RonaldSchroeter
School of InformationTechnologyand Electrical Engineering,University of
Queensland,Brisbane,Qld.,Australia
e-mail:[email protected]
ThomasSikora
Communication Systems Group, Technische Universita¨t Berlin, Sekr. EN 1,
Einsteinufer17,10587Berlin,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
xii Contributors
MichelaSpagnuolo
IstitutodiMatematicaApplicataeTecnologieInformatiche,ConsiglioNazionale
delleRicerche,Genova,Italy
e-mail:[email protected]
SteffenStaab
ISWeb–InformationSystemsandSemanticWeb,UniversityofKoblenz,Koblenz,
Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
MichaelG.Strinztis
Information Processing Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department,AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki,Thessaloniki,Greece
ChrisaTsinaraki
Laboratoryof Distributed Multimedia InformationSystems and Applications
(TUC/MUSIC),TechnicalUniversityofCrete,Chania,Crete,Greece
e-mail:[email protected]
DavidVallet
UniversidadAuto´nomadeMadrid,Madrid,Spain
e-mail:[email protected]
HowardWactlar
SchoolofComputerScience,CarnegieMellonUniversity,Pittsburgh,PA,USA
e-mail:[email protected]
RongYan
IntelligentInformationManagementDepartment,IBMTJWatsonResearchCenter,
Hawthorne,NY,USA
e-mail:[email protected]
