Image and Video Analysis

Combined Domain Specific and Multimedia Ontologies for Image Understanding

28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Koblenz, Germany, September 2005.

Knowledge representation and annotation of multimedia documents typically have been pursued in two different directions. Previous approaches have focused either on low level descriptors, such as dominant color, or on the content dimension and corresponding manual annotations, such as person or vehicle. In this paper, we present a knowledge infrastructure to bridge the gap between the two directions. Ontologies are being extended and enriched to include low-level audiovisual features and descriptors. Additionally, a tool for linking low-level MPEG-7 visual descriptions to ontologies and annotations has been developed. In this way, we construct ontologies that include prototypical instances of domain concepts together with a formal specification of the corresponding visual descriptors. Thus, we combine high-level domain concepts and low-level multimedia descriptions, enabling for new media content analysis.

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