This comprehensive book draws together experts to explore how knowledge technologies can be exploited to create new multimedia applications, and how multimedia technologies can provide new contexts for the use of knowledge technologies. Thorough coverage of all relevant topics is given. The step-by-step approach guides the reader from fundamental enabling technologies of ontologies, analysis and reasoning, through to applications which have hitherto had less attention.

We greeted the attendees of CIVR 2004 with the following address: T aimid an- bhroduil failte a chur romhaibh chuig Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Atha Cliath agus chuig an triu Comhdh ail Idirn aisiun ta ar Aisghabh ail Iomh anna agus F ?se an. Tasuil againn go mbeidh am iontach agaibh anseo in Eirinn agus go mbeidh bhur gcuairt taitneamhnach agus sas uil. T aimid an-bhroduil go hairithe failte a chur roimh na daoine on oiread sin t ?ortha difriula agus na daoine a th ainig as i bhfad i gc ein. Taanoireadsinpaip ear curtha isteach chuig an chomhdh ail seo go bhfuil caighde an na bp aip ear agus na...

We are delighted to welcome you to the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies held in Athens. SAMT 2006 aims to narrowthe large disparity between the low-level descr- tors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the ri- ness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media The Semantic Gap. SAMT started out as two workshops, EWIMT 2004 and EWIMT 2005, that quickly achieved success in attracting high-quality papers from across Europe and beyond. This year EWIMT turned into the...

This comprehensive book draws together experts to explore how knowledge technologies can be exploited to create new multimedia applications, and how multimedia technologies can provide new contexts for the use of knowledge technologies. Thorough coverage of all relevant topics is given. The step-by-step approach guides the reader from fundamental enabling technologies of ontologies, analysis and reasoning, through to applications which have hitherto had less attention.