Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications, a book on Multimedia Ontologies

Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications, a book on Multimedia Ontologies. Editors: Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Paola Hobson. Book in Springer Website, March 2008.

This book seeks to draw together appropriate strands of work from the multimedia, the knowledge and the integrated multimedia-knowledge domains to present a fundamental work which can serve as a reference book for researchers going forward. It provides thorough coverage of all relevant topics, ontologies for low level multimedia feature representation (e.g. MPEG-7 and OWL), for higher level multimedia systems representations and for specific applications (e.g. 3D shapes).