Multimedia Semantics - The Role of Metadata Book

Part I Fundamentals of Multimedia Metadata Standards.- Dynamic and Distributed Multimedia Content Adaptation based on the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework.- From MPEG-4 Scene Representation to MPEG-7 Description.- Overview of Open Standards for Interactive TV (iTV).- Metadata in the Audiovisual Media Production Process.- Part II Multimedia Semantics.- Smart Social Software for Mobile Cross-Media Communities.- Organizing metadata into models and ontologies for lowering annotation costs of a biological image database.- User-aware adaptation by subjective metadata and inferred implicit descriptors.- Part III Multimedia Retrieval.- Semantics in Content-based Multimedia Retrieval.- User-Centered Multimedia Retrieval Evaluation based on Empirical Research.- Specification of an MPEG-7 Query Format.- Part IV Cross-Modal Multimedia Techniques.- Visualisation Techniques for Analysis and Exploration of Multimedia Data.- Automatic Extraction, Indexing, Retrieval and Visualization of Multimodal Meeting Recordings for Knowledge.- Management Activities.