Multimedia constitutes an interesting field of application for Semantic Web and Semantic
Web reasoning, as the access and management of multimedia content and context depends …

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 …

Reo is a graphical channel-based coordination language that enables the modeling of
complex behavioral protocols using a small set of channel types with well-de ned behavior …

This chapter introduces a novel image-segmentation scheme based on case-based
reasoning. Image segmentation is aimed at dividing an image into a number of different …

Advances in tools and technologies for digital media production and analysis have assured
the availability of larger and larger amount of data which carry a huge amount of information …

The amount of multimedia resources that is created and needs to be managed is increasing
considerably. Additionally, a significant increase of metadata, either structured (metadata …

This paper describes the 3DSA (3D Semantic Annotation) system developed at the
University of Queensland that enables users to attach tags/annotations to points, surface …

Detailed, consistent semantic annotation of large collections of multimedia data is difficult
and time-consuming. In domains such as eScience, digital curation and industrial …

Increasing numbers of museums and cultural institutions are using 3D laser scanning
techniques to preserve cultural artefacts as 3D digital models, that are then accessible to …

In order to manage the content of multimedia data, the content must be annotated. Although
any user-defined annotation is acceptable, it is preferable if systems agree on the same …