Semantic multimedia analysis based on region types and visual context

Abstract

In this paper previous work on the detection of high-level concepts within multimedia documents is extended by introducing a mid-level ontology as a means of exploiting the visual context of images in terms of the regions they consist of. More specifically, we construct a mid-level ontology, define its relations and integrate it in our knowledge modelling approach. In the past we have developed algorithms to address computationally efficient handling of visual context and extraction of mid-level characteristics and now we explain how these diverse algorithms and methodologies can be combined in order to approach a greater goal, that of semantic multimedia analysis. Early experimental results are presented using data derived from the beach domain. © 2007 International Federation for Information Processing.