Title: Introducing a unified framework for content object description

Authors: Petros Daras; Apostolos Axenopoulos; Vasileios Darlagiannis; Dimitrios Tzovaras; Xavier Le Bourdon; Laurent Joyeux; Anne Verroust-Blondet; Vincenzo Croce; Thomas Steiner; Alberto Massari; Antonio Camurri; Steeve Morin; Amar-Djalil Mezaour; Lorenzo Franco Sutton; Sabine Spiller

Addresses: Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Informatics and Telematics Institute, 6th Km Charilaou-Thermi, 57001, Thessaloniki, Greece. ' Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Informatics and Telematics Institute, 6th Km Charilaou-Thermi, 57001, Thessaloniki, Greece. ' Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Informatics and Telematics Institute, 6th Km Charilaou-Thermi, 57001, Thessaloniki, Greece. ' Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Informatics and Telematics Institute, 6th Km Charilaou-Thermi, 57001, Thessaloniki, Greece. ' JCP-Consult, 9, mail de Bourgchevreuil, 35510 Cesson-Sévigné, France. ' INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France. ' INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France. ' Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.a., Viale Regione Siciliana Nord Ovest, 7275, 90146, Palermo, Italy. ' Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. ' InfoMus Lab, c/o University of Genova, DIST, Viale F. Causa 13, 16145 Genova, Italy. ' InfoMus Lab, c/o University of Genova, DIST, Viale F. Causa 13, 16145 Genova, Italy. ' Exalead SA, 10 Place de la Madeleine, 75008 Paris, France. ' Exalead SA, 10 Place de la Madeleine, 75008 Paris, France. ' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale de Coubertin, 00196 Rome, Italy. ' EasternGraphics GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Str. 1, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany

Abstract: In this paper, a novel framework for description of rich media content is introduced. Firstly, the concept of 'content objects' is provided. Content objects are rich media presentations, enclosing different types of media, along with real-world information and user-related information. These highly complex presentations require a suitable description scheme in order to be searched and retrieved by end users. Therefore, a novel rich unified content description is analysed, which provides a uniform descriptor for all types of content objects irrespective of the underlying media and accompanying information.

Keywords: multimedia description; multimodal search and retrieval; unified framework; content object description; rich media content.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIS.2011.044765

International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security, 2011 Vol.2 No.3/4, pp.351 - 375

Published online: 28 Feb 2015 *

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