Ontologies are gaining increased importance in the area of multimedia retrieval or management as they try to overcome the commonly known drawbacks of existing multimedia metadata standards for the descriptions of the semantics of multimedia content. In order to build and use ontologies, user have to receive appropriate support. This paper presents the SALERO Semantic Workbench which offers a se...

In this work we propose an XML based toolkit for the construction of an oral history digital archive that allows the filing, classification and annotation of multimedia resources associated to a corpus of interviews. We describe the general organization of the archive and focus on content creation tools. In particular, we present a document editor for the classification and annotation of interv...

This paper describes distributed web service architecture to allow web level scalability for multimedia content analysis. We introduce service component architecture that allows for orchestration and composition of services as content analysis units to enrich multimedia metadata using common data model built upon MPEG-7 content description standard. We report experiments with automatic load bal...

This paper describes best-practices in lifting an image metadata standard to the Semantic Web. We provide guidelines on how an XML-based metadata format can be converted into an OWL ontology. Additionally, we discuss how this ontology can be mapped to the W3C’s Media Ontology. This ontology is a standardization effort of the W3C to provide a core vocabulary for multimedia annotations. The appro...

This paper proposes a MPEG-7 compliant multimedia indexing system. The so-called AMIS (Automated Multimedia Indexing System), developed using Java technology, includes a complete chain of data and metadata processing (annotation, description management and search engine), with an user-friendly interface and support for an extended set of multimedia content types (still images, audio, videos, 3D...

In this paper we describe our ’Fachstudie’ on the topic of BCI-based video annotation. During our work, we tried to resolve the question if today’s brain-computer-interfaces could be a good solution for implicit multimedia annotation. We describe the BCI devices that currently are on the market and a introduce our prototype, Mediabrain. A user study to evaluate the results is being conducted.

Concept indexing in multimedia libraries is very useful for users searching and browsing but it is a very challenging research problem as well. Beyond the systems’ implementations issues, semantic indexing is strongly dependant upon the size and quality of the training examples. In this paper, we describe the collaborative annotation system used to annotate the High Level Features (HLF) in the ...

The aim of the SCHEMA Network of Excellence is to bring together a critical mass of universities, research centers, industrial partners and end users, in order to design a reference system for content-based semantic scene analysis, interpretation and understanding. Relevant research areas include: content-based multimedia analysis and automatic annotation of semantic multimedia content, combine...

This paper presents a framework for the conversion of audiotape spoken books to full featured digital talking books. It is developed within the context of the IPSOM project. The introduction of search, cross-referencing and annotation mechanisms, with multimedia and trough multimodal capabilities are considered. Different formats and standards are taken into consideration, as well as different ...

The success of multimedia enabled community engines depends on a careful design of the digital media and the related communication/collaboration tools. However, the semantics of the multimedia contents in community communication and collaboration is hard to capture and complex to compute. With the opportunities given by the combination of metadata descriptions standards like MPEG-7 and server-s...