The lack of standardization in the production, organization and dissemination of information
in documentation centers and institutions alike, as a result from the digitization of collections …

The fact that there exists a gap between low-level features and semantic meanings of
images, called the semantic gap, is known for decades. Resolution of the semantic gap is a …

Abstract Machine understandable metadata forms the main prerequisite for the intelligent
services envisaged in a Web, which going beyond mere data exchange and provides for …

MPEG-7 can be used to create complex and comprehensive metadata descriptions of
multimedia content. Since MPEG-7 is defined in terms of an XML schema, the semantics of …

The importance of knowledge organization and information retrieval techniques has been
evident throughout human history, becoming even more crucial in the digital age. While …

In this paper, we present the dynamic pictorial ontology paradigm for video annotation.
Ontologies are often used to describe a given domain for different goals, including …

This paper investigates the problem of the real-time integration and processing of
multimedia metadata collected by a distributed sensor network. The discussed practical …

This paper deals with information retrieval and semantic indexing of multimedia documents.
We propose a generic scheme combining an ontology-based evidential framework and high …

Investigations into the requirements for a practical adaptive multimedia presentation system
have led the writers to propose the use of a video segmentation process that provides …

INSEMTIVES overall goals is to increase the amount of available semantic content by
looking into incentives and by bridging the gap between human and computational …