level. The two most important functionalities provided by MPEG-7 are: the decomposition of media assets and the (semantic) annotation of their parts, which we include in our multimedia ontology. Decomposition. MPEG-7 provides descriptors for spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal and media source decompositions of multimedia content into segments. A segment is the most general abstract concept in M...

Bilkent University Multimedia Database Group (BILMDG) participated in two tasks at TRECVID 2008: content-based copy detection (CBCD) and high-level feature extraction (FE). Mostly MPEG-7 [1] visual features, which are also used as low-level features in our MPEG-7 compliant video database management system, are extracted for these tasks. This paper discusses our approaches in each task.

Wirtschaftlich optimale Fruchtfolgen sind seit langem Gegenstand agrarökonomischer Forschung. Die bisher für die Lineare Programmierung entstandenen Modelle erachteten die Fruchtfolge abstrakt als betriebsbezogenes Modellkonstrukt. Die für diesen Beitrag prototypisch entwickelte Modellierung sieht das Fruchtfolgeproblem parzellenspezifisch in kombinatorischer bzw. sequenzieller Sichtweise für m...

Abstract. Beauville [1] introduced an integrable Hamiltonian system whose general level set is isomorphic to the complement of the theta divisor in the Jacobian of the spectral curve. This can be regarded as a generalization of the Mumford system [7]. In this article, we construct a variant of Beauville’s system whose general level set is isomorphic to the complement of the intersection of the ...

The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District, issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the CSX Railroad Swing Span Bridge across Chickasaw Creek, mile 0.0, in Mobile, Alabama. The deviation is necessary to replace railroad ties on the bridge. This deviation allows the bridge to remain closed for eight hours on March 8, 2011. DATES: This deviation is effective fr...

Most of the currently existing image retrieval systems make use of either low-level features or semantic (textual) annotations. A combined usage during annotation and retrieval is rarely attempted. In this paper, we propose a standardized annotation framework that integrates semantic and feature based information about the content of images. The presented approach is based on the MPEG-7 standar...

Die Rolle des Archivs in den Arbeitsabläufen der Rundfunkanstalten wird mit der Konvergenz von IT-, Kommunikationsund A/V-Technik immer bedeutender. Die Wiederverwertbarkeit von Beiträgen ist zu einem wichtigen Ziel der Medienindustrie geworden. Digitale Archive erlauben den direkten und gleichzeitigen Zugriff auf gespeicherten Content. Damit Inhalte schnell und zielgenau gefunden werden können...

Dance video is one of the important types of narrative videos with semantic rich content. This paper proposes a new meta model, Dance Video Content Model (DVCM) to represent the expressive semantics of the dance videos at multiple granularity levels. The DVCM is designed based on the concepts such as video, shot, segment, event and object, which are the components of MPEG-7 MDS. This paper intr...

Bürger können ebenso wie Unternehmen mit Hilfe der elektronischen Signatur ihren Geschäftsverkehr nicht nur sicherer gestalten, sondern auch deutlich vereinfachen. Signaturgesetze schaffen dabei die notwendigen Rahmenbedingungen. Während die Ausgabe von Signaturkarten in Deutschland derzeit noch verstärkt von der Industrie übernommen wird und der Staat sich eher zurückhält, sind andere europäis...

This paper provides a thorough description of a methodology which leads to high accuracy as regards automatic analysis of broadcast audio. The main objective is to find a feature set for efficient speech/music discrimination while keeping the number of its dimensions as small as possible. Three groups of parameters based on Mel-scale filterbank, MPEG-7 standard and wavelet decomposition are exa...