Ebook: Database semantics: semantic issues in multimedia systems

Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems reflects the state of the art of emerging research on the meaning of multimedia information, as presented during IFIP's Eighth Data Semantics Working Conference (DS-8), organized by its Working Group 2.6 on Databases, and held at Rotorua, New Zealand, in January 1999. DS-8 was planned as an active forum for researchers and practitioners focusing on those issues that involve the semantics of the information represented, stored, and manipulated by multimedia systems. Depending on the topic and state of research, issues may be covered either deeply theoretically or quite practically, or even both.
These proceedings contain twenty-one papers carefully selected by an International Programme Committee and organized in six thematic areas:

• Video Data Modelling and Use;
• Image Databases;
• Applications of Multimedia Systems;
• Multimedia Modeling in General;
• Multimedia Information Retrieval;
• Semantics and Metadata.
  For almost every area, important topics and issues include:
• data modeling and query languages for media such as audio, video, and images;
• methodological aspects of multimedia database design;
• intelligent multimedia information retrieval;
• knowledge discovery and data mining in multimedia information;
• multimedia user interfaces.

Three visionary keynote addresses, by famous experts Ramesh Jain, Hermann Maurer and Masao Sakauchi, set the stage for discussion and future directions for the field. The collection of papers that resulted now offers a glimpse of the excitement and enthusiasm from DS-8.
Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on database systems, multimedia systems, or information retrieval systems and as a reference for practitioners and researchers in industry.

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Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems reflects the state of the art of emerging research on the meaning of multimedia information, as presented during IFIP's Eighth Data Semantics Working Conference (DS-8), organized by its Working Group 2.6 on Databases, and held at Rotorua, New Zealand, in January 1999. DS-8 was planned as an active forum for researchers and practitioners focusing on those issues that involve the semantics of the information represented, stored, and manipulated by multimedia systems. Depending on the topic and state of research, issues may be covered either deeply theoretically or quite practically, or even both. These proceedings contain twenty-one papers carefully selected by an International Programme Committee and organized in six thematic areas: • Video Data Modelling and Use; • Image Databases; • Applications of Multimedia Systems; • Multimedia Modeling in General; • Multimedia Information Retrieval; • Semantics and Metadata. For almost every area, important topics and issues include: • data modeling and query languages for media such as audio, video, and images; • methodological aspects of multimedia database design; • intelligent multimedia information retrieval; • knowledge discovery and data mining in multimedia information; • multimedia user interfaces. Three visionary keynote addresses, by famous experts Ramesh Jain, Hermann Maurer and Masao Sakauchi, set the stage for discussion and future directions for the field. The collection of papers that resulted now offers a glimpse of the excitement and enthusiasm from DS-8. Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on database systems, multimedia systems, or information retrieval systems and as a reference for practitioners and researchers in industry.

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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 NoE and the SMaRT society web sites (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.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Semantic Interactivity in Presence Systems....Pages 1-2
Towards the Construction of the Multimedia Mediation Mechanism....Pages 3-15
Can WWW be Successful?....Pages 17-25
Resource Prediction and Admission Control for Interactive Video....Pages 27-46
Data Semantics for Improving Retrieval Performance of Digital News Video Systems....Pages 47-64
Syntactical and Semantical Description of Video Sequences....Pages 65-84
A Multi-Model Framework for Video Information Systems....Pages 85-107
COSIS: A Content-Oriented Shoeprint Identification System....Pages 109-122
A User Interface for Emergent Semantics in Image Databases....Pages 123-143
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of TOOMM: A Temporal Object-Oriented Multimedia Data Model....Pages 145-168
Spatiotemporal Specification & Verification of Multimedia Scenarios....Pages 169-188
ZYX — A Semantic Model for Multimedia Documents and Presentations....Pages 189-209
Fuzzy Logic Techniques in Multimedia Databases Querying: A Preliminary Investigation of the Potentials....Pages 211-229
Defining Views in an Image Database System....Pages 231-250
A Three-Dimensional Representation Scheme for Indexing and Querying in Iconic Image Databases....Pages 251-269
Multimedia Information Retrieval Framework: From Theory to Practice....Pages 271-290
Classification Based Navigation and Retrieval for Picture Archives....Pages 291-310
Searching Distributed and Heterogeneous Digital Media: The VisualHarness Approach....Pages 311-330
Using WG-Log Schemata to Represent Semistructured Data....Pages 331-349
Adaptive and Adaptable Presentation Semantics....Pages 351-369
Quality of Service Semantics for Multimedia Database Systems....Pages 371-391
Semantics of a Multimedia Database for Support within Synthetic Environments for Multiple Sensor Systems....Pages 393-412
Two Data Organizations for Storing Symbolic Images in a Relational Database System....Pages 413-434
....Pages 435-456