IMAGETCL is an new system which provides powerful Tcl/Tk based media scripting capabilities similar to those of the ViewSystem and Rivl in a unique environment that allows rapid prototyping and development of new components in the C++ language. Powerful user tools automate the creation of new components as well as the addition of new data types and le formats. Applications using IMAGETCL at the...

-This paper provides a model for automatically generating captions for news images, which is used to support development of news media management and many multimedia applications. In the existing method, the captions for the news images are given manually by reading the text content. Thus the caption generation task requires human involvement and hence a time consuming process. The proposed sys...

Multimedia content accounts for over 60% of traffic in the current internet [74]. With many users willing to spend their leisure time watching videos on YouTube or browsing photos through Flickr, sifting through large multimedia collections for useful information, especially those outside of the open web, is still an open problem. The lack of effective indexes to describe the content of multime...

All the specialists have agreed that the possibility of adding to multimedia WWW objects some sort of ‘conceptual’ annotations describing their information content would greatly contribute to solve the problem of their ‘intelligent’ indexing and retrieval. We propose to associate with the Web objects not the final conceptual annotation, but a simple natural language (NL) caption, in the form of...

The aim of this paper is to present a proposal for multimedia documents annotation, based on modeling and unifying features elicited from content and structure mining. Our approach relies on the availability of annotated metadata representing segment content and structure as well as segment transcripts. Temporal and spatial operators are also taken into account when annotating documents. Any fe...

The Community of Multimedia Agents project (COMMA) is devoted to creating an open Web-based environment for developing, testing, learning and prototyping multimedia content analysis and annotation methods. Each method is represented as an agent that can communicate with the other agents registered in the environment using templates that are based on MPEG-7 descriptors and description schemes. T...

Tradeoffs have always existed between a consistent, widely-used interface and interfaces optimized for specific purposes. However, the balance may be shifting toward a focus on specialized interfaces due to increased capabilities of software and rising expectations of users. We illustrate these effects through the description of a multimedia annotation system deployed in a series of laboratory ...