Role of Semantics in Multimedia Applications

Definition

Semantic Web Tools and Standards greatly assist in both description and reasoning stages of computation.

Many types of multimedia applications can – and do – leverage rich information model semantics. Much like textual applications (such as multi-schemata databases) in which ontologies and semantics come into play, multimedia applications constitute a rich proving-ground due to their naturally diverse and disparate properties (i.e., encoding types, temporal attributes, spatial attributes, and so on.)

Multimedia Applications using Semantic Computation

A few of many multimedia domains in which semantics are pivotal include: digital libraries, broadcast media, editing, entertainment, telemedicine, and surveillance. The following list is only partially representative; each entry describes in what sense semantics are exploited or particularly important (not all use the same sense of the term or supporting technologies):

• 1. The Motion Pictures Expert Group– The MPEG-7 standard...