The rapid adoption of broadband communications technology, coupled with ever-increasing capacity-to-price ratios for data storage, has made multimedia information increasingly more pervasive and accessible for consumers. As a result, the sheer volume of multimedia data available has exploded on the Internet in the past decade in the form of Web casts, broadcast programs, and streaming audio and...

video annotation, multimedia processing, digital medical records, podcasting In this paper, we demonstrate how rich media annotation can enable two new applications for video podcasting and digital medical records. At WIAMIS 2004, we introduced an innovative video annotation technology called Active Shadows, that captures a virtual presence interacting with a displayed image and overlays on top...

When it comes to asynchronous online learning, the literature recommends multimedia content like videos of lectures and demonstrations. However, lack emotional connection absence teacher support in these video materials can be detrimental student success. We proposed incorporating talking heads annotations alleviate weaknesses. In this study, we investigated cognitive affective effects integrat...

PHAROS is a configurable and customizable platform for Search-Based Applications (SBA). Such platforms allow integration of different kinds of annotation and indexing technologies for any media type. We report on an experiment of integration of an annotation component within the PHAROS configurable multimedia search platform. We integrate a third-party image analysis technology for human face r...

ImageCLEF’s Flickr Photo Annotation and Retrieval task aims to advance the state of the art in multimedia research by providing a challenging benchmark for visual concept detection, annotation and retrieval in the context of a diverse collection of Flickr photos. The benchmark consisted of two separate but closely connected subtasks, where the objective of the first subtask was to accurately de...

English-speaking college students who were enrolled in a German course read a 762-word German language story presented by a computer program. For key words in the story, students could choose to see a translation on the screen in English (i.e., verbal annotation) or view a picture or video clip representing the word (i.e,, visual annotation), or both. Students remembered word translations bette...

The task of multimedia document categorization forms a well-known problem in information retrieval. The task is to assign a multimedia document to one or more categories, based on its contents. In this case, effective management and thematic categorization requires usually the extraction of the underlying semantics. The proposed approach utilizes as input, analyzes and exploits the textual anno...

Open Hypermedia Systems (OHS) aim to provide efficient dissemination, adaptation and integration of hyperlinked multimedia resources. Content available in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks could add significant value to OHS provided that challenges for efficient discovery and prompt delivery of rich and up-to-date content are successfully addressed. This paper proposes an architecture that enables th...

Die Anzahl der aufgezeichneten digitalen Vorlesungen nimmt rapide zu. Immer mehr Hochschuleinrichtungen nutzen die Möglichkeit, ihre Vorlesungen als Videos aufzuzeichnen, in multimedialen Datenbanken abzulegen und für den Zugriff über das Internet bereitzustellen. Bislang ist die detaillierte Suche in diesen Multimedia Daten jedoch nur begrenzt möglich. Der Hauptgrund hierfür ist in dem Umstand...

The paper describes an approach for semantic annotation of multimedia objects implemented for the purposes of SINUS Project. Semantic annotations are supported by semantic annotation models based on ontological presentation of knowledge concerning Bulgarian Iconography. The process of semantic annotation includes automated data-lifting procedure and user-directed approach. The paper pays attent...