Semantic Multimedia

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2008, held in Koblenz, Germany, in December 2008.

Keynote Talk: Tracking the Progress of Multimedia Semantics - from MPEG-7 to Web 3.0.- Keynote Talk: Data by the People, for the People.- Automatic Summarization of Rushes Video Using Bipartite Graphs.- Validating the Detection of Everyday Concepts in Visual Lifelogs.- Using Fuzzy DLs to Enhance Semantic Image Analysis.- Enriching a Thesaurus to Improve Retrieval of Audiovisual Documents.- Tag Suggestr: Automatic Photo Tag Expansion Using Visual Information for Photo Sharing Websites.- Semantic Middleware to Enhance Multimedia Retrieval in a Broadcaster.- Labelling Image Regions Using Wavelet Features and Spatial Prototypes.- Performing Content-Based Retrieval of Humans Using Gait Biometrics.- Context as a Non-ontological Determinant of Semantics.- Exploring Music Artists via Descriptive Terms and Multimedia Content.- Semantic-Driven Multimedia Retrieval with the MPEG Query Format.- On Video Abstraction Systems' Architectures and Modelling.