CfP: I-Media Special Session on Multimedia Metadata

Studies show that sales of digital capture devices like video camera, digital photo cameras, or mobile phones with digital cameras are still rising. Therefore it can be expected that the number of created digital multimedia content will rise dramatically in future. Multimedia metadata is currently the only way to cope with problems like semantics based retrieval or organization of content and provides means to specify adaptation and delivery constraints and rules. Within this special session the importance of metadata for media technologies is discussed. We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as application papers. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Multimedia technologies and metadata in the social web
• Multimedia semantics
• Annotation of multimedia content
• Metadata in pervasive multimedia computing
• Metadata for new media
• Studies and surveys in context of multimedia metadata and new media

We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as application papers.

Organization

The special session is organized by the Multimedia Metadata Community which has already organized a series of 8 successful workshops in the past taking place in Aachen, Berlin, Graz and Klagenfurt. The Multimedia Metadata Community aims to extend the active and successful community and network with new members.

Submission

Submissions for the special session are handled via the submission system of the TRIPLE-I/I-Media and are reviewed by the TRIPLE-I/I-Media program committee.

14 April 2008: Submission of the full papers (4-8 pages)
31 May 2008: Notification of acceptance
30 June 2008: Camera ready version (8 pages)
3-5 September 2008: TRIPLE-I Conference

Special Session Chairs

• Michael Granitzer, Know-Center Graz
• Mathias Lux, ITEC / Klagenfurt University

Contact: mlux <at> itec <dot> uni-klu.ac.at

Related Links

• Special Session Homepage

Title: Multimedia Semantics – The Role of Metadata
Editors: M. Granitzer, M. Lux & M. Spaniol
Pages: ~260
ISBN: 978-3-540-77472-3

The web page at Springer is here. I’ll blog more about the book as soon as it is published.

So what does VAMP do? In short words: This validation service allows to verify the (partial) semantic correctness of an XML (especially MPEG-7) file. Take for example the temporal decomposition of a video file described in XML. You’ve scenes (longer sequences of video frames), which are grouping shots (shorter sequences of video frames). One semantic constraints is that no shot start point (time in the video) can occur before the start point of the parent scene. The same goes for end points: With the parent scene all child shots should end. However in distributed environment one can never be sure. Also automatic extraction routines also fail to detect the exact frame number, where shot boundaries are found. A semantic validation service provides means to detect such semantic errors and that’s what VAMP does.

More information can be found on the VAMP website and I think Martin Höffernig, Werner Bailer and Georg Thallinger are open to questions

[Note this is a cross post from here]

• Analysis of the Data Quality of Audio Descriptions of Environmental Sounds, Dalibor Mitrovic, Matthias Zeppelzauer and Horst Eidenberger from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• MPEG-7 meets Multimedia Database Systems, Mario Döller from the University Passau, Germany
• A Description Infrastructure for Audiovisual Media Processing Systems Based on MPEG-7, Peter Schallauer, Werner Bailer and Georg Thallinger from Joanneum Research in Graz, Austria
• Community Hosting with MPEG-7 Compliant Multimedia Support, Ralf Klamma, Marc Spaniol and Yiwei Cao from the RWTH Aachen, Germany
• Semantic Applications on MPEG-7 Descriptions of Multi-modal Meeting Corpora: First Results, Victor Manuel García-Barrios and Christian Gütl from the Graz University of Technology, Austria
• On the Complexity of Annotation with the High Level Metadata, Mathias Lux from the Klagenfurt University in Austria and Michael Granitzer and Werner Klieber from the Know-Center Graz, Austria

The last article shows the results of an user evaluation of Caliph, which yielded quite interesting results. The user questionaire showed that users could imagine usage semantic descriptions in a professional environment, but not for personal use due to the complexity of annotation.

• Java-Media Programming on Mobile Devices (by Horst Eidenberger)
• Visualisation Ideas for the MISTRAL Meeting Explorer (by Vedran Sabol)
• The DANAE project and future perspectives (by Christian Timmerer)
• Formalizing semantics of MPEG-7 descriptions (by Werner Bailer)

All presentations will be put online on the community portal along with additional material.

From the website: The community aims at bringing together experts from research and industry in the area of multimedia meta data interoperability for collaborative working environments. By establishing a community of professionals it is intended to bridge the gap between an academic research and an industrial scale development of innovative products for natural collaboration. To accomplish this goal the portal provides information about MPEG-7 & MPEG-21 related events, participating research groups, as well as industry partners to share expertise on multimedia meta data interoperability.