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Multimedia Semantics

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Definition:Multimedia semantics deals with the question how to conceptually index, search and retrieve the digital multimedia content, which means how to extract and represent the semantics of the content of the multimedia raw data in a human and machine-understandable way.

Conceptualization of the multimedia content

The late advances in computer and communication technologies caused a huge increase of digital multimedia information distributed over the web. On the one hand, the production line of digital multimedia content can now be followed by everyone: the production houses shoot high quality video in digital format; organizations that hold multimedia content (TV channels, film archives, museums, libraries, etc.) digitize it and use the different digital formats for preservation, management and distribution; most of people has digital cameras, scanners etc and produces image and video content in MPEG and JPEG formats, ready to be delivered. On the other hand, due to the maturity of...

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  1. Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece

    Giorgos Stamou & Stefanos Kollias

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

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Stamou, G., Kollias, S. (2006). Multimedia Semantics. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30038-4_161

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