Video Semantic Content Analysis Framework Based on Ontology Combined MPEG-7

  • Liang Bai
  • Songyang Lao
  • Weiming Zhang
  • Gareth J. F. Jones
  • Alan F. Smeaton
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4918)

Abstract

The rapid increase in the available amount of video data is creating a growing demand for efficient methods for understanding and managing it at the semantic level. New multimedia standard, MPEG-7, provides the rich functionalities to enable the generation of audiovisual descriptions and is expressed solely in XML Schema which provides little support for expressing semantic knowledge. In this paper, a video semantic content analysis framework based on ontology combined MPEG-7 is presented. Domain ontology is used to define high level semantic concepts and their relations in the context of the examined domain. MPEG-7 metadata terms of audiovisual descriptions and video content analysis algorithms are expressed in this ontology to enrich video semantic analysis. OWL is used for the ontology description. Rules in Description Logic are defined to describe how low-level features and algorithms for video analysis should be applied according to different perception content. Temporal Description Logic is used to describe the semantic events, and a reasoning algorithm is proposed for events detection. The proposed framework is demonstrated in sports video domain and shows promising results.

Keywords

Video Semantic Content MPEG-7 Ontology OWL Description Logic Temporal Description Logic 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Liang Bai
    • 1
    • 2
  • Songyang Lao
    • 1
  • Weiming Zhang
    • 1
  • Gareth J. F. Jones
    • 2
  • Alan F. Smeaton
    • 2
  1. 1.School of Information System & ManagementNational University of Defense TechnologyChangShaChina
  2. 2.Centre for Digital Video ProcessingDublin City University, GlasnevinDublin 9Ireland

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