The Cubrik Project is an Integrated Project of the 7th Framework Programme that aims at contributing to the multimedia search domain by opening the architecture of multimedia search engines to the integration of open source and third party content annotation and query processing components, and by exploiting the contribution of humans and communities in all the phases of multimedia search, from...

In this paper, we present meetings as an application domain for multimedia content analysis. Meeting databases are a rich data source suitable for a variety of audio, visual and multi-modal tasks, including speech recognition, people and action recognition, and information retrieval. We specifically focus on the task of semantic annotation of audio-visual (AV) events, where annotation consists ...

With the increasing interest in multimedia annotation, emotion annotation is being recognized as an essential resource which can be applied for a variety of purposes, including video information retrieval and dialogue systems. Here we introduce an automatic emotion annotation schema for dialogues, which could be used for the retrieval of specific scenes in film. Distinguished from previous work...

Semantic descriptions of non-textual media available on the web can be used to facilitate retrieval and presentation of media assets and documents containing them. While technologies for multimedia semantic descriptions already exist, there is as yet no formal description of a high quality multimedia ontology that is compatible with existing (semantic) web technologies. We explain the complexit...

Current search technologies can only harness the ever increasing amount of multimedia data when sufficient metadata exists. Several annotations are already available, yet they seldom cover all aspects. The generation of additional metadata proves costly; therefore efficient multimedia retrieval requires automated annotation methods. Current feature extraction algorithms are limited because they...

Defining ontologies within the multimedia domain still remains a challenging task, due to the complexity of multimedia data and the related associated knowledge. In this paper, we propose: i) a novel multimedia ontology model that combine both low level descriptors and high level semantic concepts; ii) an automatic construction of ontologies using the Flickrweb services, that provide images, ta...

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a declarative XML language used to support the semantic structure, annotation and control of SMIL documents. We evaluate the system in the context of distant learning environment. We named the new framework SMPL as it intended to support the design of simple, declarative language based, multimedia document management standards, based on...

Audio and Video has become easier to record and store but while users can easily bookmark, search, link to, or tag the WHOLE of a recording available on the web (e.g. YouTube) they cannot easily find, or associate their notes or resources with, PART of that recording. This project therefore addresses the important user need of making multimedia web resources easier to access, search, manage, an...

In this paper we present an overview of the intelligent multimedia annotation and search system MetaOn. The core objective is to construct and integrate semantically rich metadata, extracted from documents and images, to facilitate intelligent search and analysis. The proposed MetaOn framework involves, ontology-based information extraction and data mining, semi-automatic construction of domain...

An der Fachhochschule JOANNEUM, Österreich, werden im berufsbegleitenden Studiengang SoftwareDesign Lernund Lehrszenarien in den virtuellen Raum verlagert. Dabei bilden synchrone Online-Lehrveranstaltungen einen wesentlichen Teil der Lehre. Trotz mehrjähriger Erfahrung im eLearning stellen die Online-Veranstaltungen, im Vergleich zu den Präsenzveranstaltungen, eine Herausforderung an die FH und...