In multimedia annotation, labeling a large amount of training data by human is both time-consuming and tedious. Therefore, to automate this process, a number of methods that leverage unlabeled training data have been proposed. Normally, a given multimedia sample is associated with multiple labels, which may have inherent correlations in real world. Classical multimedia annotation algorithms add...

This paper introduces a new application called multimedia annotation, currently being developed in the European Union-funded project DIANE. A system for instant multimedia authoring, with special features for supporting the creation of multimedia documents in a distributed working environment such as distance education, is described. The system gives both teachers and learners the capabilities ...

The development of the Semantic Web, the next-generation Web, greatly relies on the availability of ontologies and powerful annotation tools. However, there is a lack of ontology-based annotation tools for linguistic multimedia data. Existing tools either lack ontology support or provide limited support for multimedia. To fill the gap, we present an ontology-based linguistic multimedia annotati...

Annotation of multimedia content with metadata is regarded as a key issue for efficiently handling such content. MPEG-7 is a major standard that has been developed for this reason, supporting the description of both lowand high-level multimedia content features. Low-level feature annotation may be automated in many ways, contrary to high-level annotation which is a more complex task that requir...

OSVIRA (Ontology-based System for Semantic Visioconference Information Retrieval and Annotation) is a system devoted to the development of help to the annotation and to the semantic research of multimedia videoconferencing resources. It is founded on the use of dense ontology associated with a thesaurus. OSVIRA allows to describe semantically the content of a pedagogic multimedia resources on t...

In recent years, along with the expansion of Web 2.0 and social networks, an extreme growth of multimedia content on the Web is registered. That multimedia content is mostly in the form of images and videos. To enable enhanced use, reuse and retrieval of multimedia content from the Web, that content needs to be annotated. Several multimedia metadata standards and a number of vocabularies common...

Due to the progressively increasing amount of multimedia on the Web, the need for efficient metadata formats describing that content has become increasingly evident. This paper gives an overview of the different approaches and methods for creation and retrieval of semantic rich multimedia metadata. Semantic web and its most important technologies XML, RDF and ontologies used for multimedia anno...

We propose the Multimedia Metadata Ontology (M3O), a framework for integrating the central aspects of multimedia metadata. These central aspects are the separation of the information conveyed by multimedia items and their realization, the annotation with both semantic and low-level metadata, and the decomposition of multimedia content. M3O bases on Semantic Web technologies and provides the mea...

The exceptional advent of interactive multimedia applications in our days has led to the need for their exploitation for educational, among other, purposes. In this work, we present the design and implementation of a multimedia annotation environment for young children. This environment was developed to provide children of ages 4 to 8 with the opportunity to reflect upon and annotate episodes f...

In order to provide automatic ontology-based multimedia annotation for producing linked data, scalable high-level media interpretation processes are required. In this paper we shortly describe an abductive media interpretation agent, and based on a Multimedia Content Ontology we introduce partitioning techniques for huge sets of timerelated annotation assertions such that interpretation as well...