1. Introduction to the special issue on “data semantics for multimedia systems”

   • Mei-Ling Shyu
   • Yu Cao
   • Jie Bao

   Guest Editorial 17 November 2009 Pages: 147 - 154

2. GAT: a Graphical Annotation Tool for semantic regions

   • Xavier Giro-i-Nieto
   • Neus Camps
   • Ferran Marques

   OriginalPaper 27 October 2009 Pages: 155 - 174

   

3. A robust framework for joint background/foreground segmentation of complex video scenes filmed with freely moving camera

   • Slim Amri
   • Walid Barhoumi
   • Ezzeddine Zagrouba

   OriginalPaper 15 September 2009 Pages: 175 - 205

   

4. Exploit camera metadata for enhancing interesting region detection and photo retrieval

   • Zhong Li
   • Jianping Fan

   OriginalPaper 26 August 2009 Pages: 207 - 233

   

5. Content and task-based view selection from multiple video streams

   • Fahad Daniyal
   • Murtaza Taj
   • Andrea Cavallaro

   OriginalPaper 24 September 2009 Pages: 235 - 258

   

6. PersonalTV

   • Günther Hölbling
   • Michael Pleschgatternig
   • Harald Kosch

   OriginalPaper 15 September 2009 Pages: 259 - 288

   

7. MyOwnLife: incremental and hierarchical classification of a personal image collection on mobile devices

   • Antoine Pigeau

   OriginalPaper 24 September 2009 Pages: 289 - 306

   

8. VAMP: a service for validating MPEG-7 descriptions w.r.t. to formal profile definitions

   • Raphaël Troncy
   • Werner Bailer
   • Michael Hausenblas

   OriginalPaper 17 October 2009 Pages: 307 - 329

   

9. Enquiring MPEG-7 based multimedia ontologies

   • Stamatia Dasiopoulou
   • Vassilis Tzouvaras
   • Michael G. Strintzis

   OriginalPaper 16 October 2009 Pages: 331 - 370

   

10. NinSuna: a fully integrated platform for format-independent multimedia content adaptation and delivery using Semantic Web technologies

    • Davy Van Deursen
    • Wim Van Lancker
    • Rik Van de Walle

    OriginalPaper 15 September 2009 Pages: 371 - 398

    

11. A computation-oriented multimedia data streams model for content-based information retrieval

    • Shi-Kuo Chang
    • Lei Zhao
    • Rohit Kulkarni

    OriginalPaper 20 October 2009 Pages: 399 - 423

    

12. A context-aware middleware for real-time semantic enrichment of distributed multimedia metadata

    • Nikolaos Konstantinou
    • Emmanuel Solidakis
    • Nikolas Mitrou

    OriginalPaper 07 October 2009 Pages: 425 - 461

    

13. Incorporating packet semantics in scheduling of real-time multimedia streaming

    • Sungwoo Hong
    • Youjip Won

    OriginalPaper 14 October 2009 Pages: 463 - 492

    

14. Content based radiology image retrieval using a fuzzy rule based scalable composite descriptor

    • Savvas A. Chatzichristofis
    • Yiannis S. Boutalis

    OriginalPaper 15 September 2009 Pages: 493 - 519

    

15. A novel tool for summarization of arthroscopic videos

    • Mathias Lux
    • Oge Marques
    • Georg Lajtai

    OriginalPaper 18 September 2009 Pages: 521 - 544

    

16. DanVideo: an MPEG-7 authoring and retrieval system for dance videos

    • Rajkumar Kannan
    • Frederic Andres
    • Christian Guetl

    OriginalPaper 23 October 2009 Pages: 545 - 572

    

17. Ranking canonical views for tourist attractions

    • Lin Yang
    • John Johnstone
    • Chengcui Zhang

    OriginalPaper 15 September 2009 Pages: 573 - 589