This paper presents a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) prototype tool called ACTS (Annotation Collaboration Tool via SMIL – Synchronized Multimedia Integrated Language), which was designed to meet the user requirements of a distributed, collaborative team performing remote analysis of robotic welds. Based on open standards such as W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) SMIL, ACTS ...

We describe the way we adapted a text analysis tool for annotating with the Linguistic Description Scheme of MPEG-7 text related to and extracted from multimedia content. Practically applied in the DIRECT-INFO EC R&D project we show how such linguistic annotation contributes to semantic annotation of multimodal analysis systems, demonstrating also the use of the XML schema of MPEG-7 for support...

Digital photos are an important aspect of the modern multimedia experience. The contributions of online collaborative communities can now be leveraged for the task of automated image annotation. We present a web tool, SpiritTagger, which suggests tags for a user’s photo provided the location where it was taken. We accomplish this on a world scale by mining data from nearly 1.5 million geo-refer...

In this paper, we discuss the design and development of a particular type of electronic publication that has gained recent popularity: electronic conference proceedings. We suggest that modern electronic proceedings should provide a high degree of interactivity. To support such interactivity, proceedings should include an extensive collection of features and diverse multimedia components. Featu...

Ambient intelligence has been gaining a lot of momentum in recent years due to the unprecedented potential it can bring by achieving a ubiquitous, inconspicuous, and interconnected technological surroundings that are sensitive, adaptive, and responsive to the presence of humans. Multimedia management including its creation, annotation, storage, sharing, retrieval and delivery in such a distribu...

In this paper, we discuss the design and development of a particular type of electronic publication that has gained recent popularity: electronic conference proceedings. We suggest that modern electronic proceedings should provide a high degree of interactivity. To support such interactivity, proceedings should include an extensive collection of features and diverse multimedia components. Featu...

Multimedia data is generated, shared, stored and distributed worldwide at an ever increasing rate. This huge amount of content comes with metadata represented in different formats which hardly interoperate although they partially overlap. The W3C Media Annotations Working Group is chartered to recommend a Media Ontology compatible with most of these schemas. In this paper, we present the proces...

Despite the growth of geotagged multimedia data on the Web, spatial and temporal metadata are still poorly exploited by Web search engines and multimedia systems. Interpretation and inference processes can enlarge these metadata towards high quality information that are useful for annotating multimedia automatically. In this paper, we propose a semi-automatic approach for annotating personal ph...

—The demand for efficient methods for extracting knowledge from multimedia content has led to a growing research community investigating the convergence of multimedia and knowledge technologies. In this paper we describe a methodology for extracting multimedia information from product catalogues empowered by the synergetic use and extension of a domain ontology. The methodology was implemented ...

Research groups and software companies have developed a number of multimedia collaboration tools such as Access Grid and Vannotea to archive collaborative objects such as audiovisual communications and digital annotations. Most of these tools are designed to process multimedia data streams, and it is not easy for their users to extend or modify them to support other types of data streams such a...