Introduction to the special issue on “metadata mining for image understanding”

Metadata for Digital Media: Introduction to the Special Issue

One of the key problems to be solved to share in formation is the development of metadata that is the data about data While the issue of metadata has re ceived a fair share of attention in conjunction with structured and text data most of the current prac tices in the context of digital media and multimedia data management are ad hoc Metadata assumes more importance when manag ing digital media...

Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Multimedia Data Mining

M ULTIMEDIA data mining refers to the study and research on the knowledge discovery in a multimedia database. Presumably, multimedia and data mining are two very in-terdisciplinary and multidisciplinary areas with independently and simultaneously rapid developments in recent years. This special issue focuses on the theme of merging multimedia and data mining research together to exploit the syn...

Introduction to the special issue on evolutionary computer vision and image understanding

Understanding Sociotechnical Action: An Introduction to the Special Issue

i The decision to propose this special issue reflects a relatively long-standing and continually developing body of work that assists understanding of interactions surrounding the utilisation of ICTs in work and social environments. The papers were developed following a workshop held at Napier University , Edinburgh (UK) during June 2004. The workshop brought together academics interested in un...

Introduction to the Affect-Based Human Behavior Understanding Special Issue

COMPUTER analysis of human behavior has been receiving a lot of attention in the past few years. The main drive behind this interest is the widespread penetration of computer-based systems and Internet applications that increasingly enter the domain of social relations. This requires more responsive systems, capable of adapting to the rich behavior patterns exhibited by interacting humans. The ...