Multimedia Semantics. Metadata, Analysis and Interaction

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…