Raphael Troncy & Benoit Huet 
Multimedia Semantics [PDF ebook] 
Metadata, Analysis and Interaction

In this book, the authors present the latest research results in
the multimedia and semantic web communities, bridging the ‘Semantic
Gap’

This book explains, collects and reports on the latest research
results that aim at narrowing the so-called multimedia ‘Semantic
Gap’: the large disparity between descriptions of multimedia
content that can be computed automatically, and the richness and
subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations
of audiovisual media. Addressing the grand challenge posed by the
‘Semantic Gap’ requires a multi-disciplinary approach (computer
science, computer vision and signal processing, cognitive science,
web science, etc.) and this is reflected in recent research in this
area. In addition, the book targets an interdisciplinary community,
and in particular the Multimedia and the Semantic Web communities.
Finally, the authors provide both the fundamental knowledge and the
latest state-of-the-art results from both communities with the goal
of making the knowledge of one community available to the
other.

Key Features:

* Presents state-of-the art research results in multimedia
semantics: multimedia analysis, metadata standards and multimedia
knowledge representation, semantic interaction with multimedia

* Contains real industrial problems exemplified by user case
scenarios

* Offers an insight into various standardisation bodies including
W3C, IPTC and ISO MPEG

* Contains contributions from academic and industrial communities
from Europe, USA and Asia

* Includes an accompanying website containing user cases,
datasets, and software mentioned in the book, as well as links to
the K-Space No E and the SMa RT society web sites (href=’http://www.multimediasemantics.com/’>http://www.multimediasemantics.com/)

This book will be a valuable reference for academic and industry
researchers /practitioners in multimedia, computational
intelligence and computer science fields. Graduate students,
project leaders, and consultants will also find this book of
interest.

Sobre el autor

Dr. Raphaël Troncy, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Netherlands
Raphaël Troncy obtained his Master’s thesis with honours in computer science at the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, France. He received his Ph D with honours in 2004. His research interests include Semantic Web and Multimedia Technologies, Knowledge Representation, Ontology Modeling and Alignment. Raphaël Troncy is an expert in audio visual metadata and in combining existing metadata standards (such as MPEG-7) with current Semantic Web technologies.

Dr. Benoit Huet, Institut EURECOM, France
Benoit Huet received his BSc degree in computer science and engineering from the Ecole Superieure de Technologie Electrique (Groupe ESIEE, France) in 1992. In 1993, he was awarded the MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Westminster (UK) with distinction. He received his Ph D degree in Computer Science from the University of York (UK). His research interests include computer vision, content-based retrieval, multimedia data mining and indexing (still and/or moving images) and pattern recognition.

Simon Schenk, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Simon Schenk is a research and teaching assistant at the Information Systems and Semantic Web Group of University of Koblenz-Landau.Simon is working towards his Ph D degree under the supervision of Professor Dr. Steffen Staab. Previously, he has worked as a consultant for Capgemini. Schenk studied at NORDAKADEMIE University of Applied Sciences, Germany and Karlstads Universitet, Sweden and received his diploma in Computer Science and Business Management from NORDAKADEMIE in 2004.