Multimedia Content Analysis: Theory and Applications

by Ajay Divakaran (Editor)

Overview

Multimedia Content Analysis: Theory and Applications covers the latest in multimedia content analysis and applications based on such analysis. As research has progressed, it has become clear that this field has to appeal to other disciplines such as psycho-physics, media production, etc. This book consists of invited chapters that cover the entire range of the field. Some of the topics covered include low-level audio-visual analysis based retrieval and indexing techniques, the TRECVID effort, video browsing interfaces, content creation and content analysis, and multimedia analysis-based applications, among others. The chapters are written by leading researchers in the multimedia field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441945679
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	12/08/2010
Series:	Signals and Communication Technology
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
Pages:	375
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Context Extraction Through Audio Signal Analysis.- Extracting Semantics from Multimedia Content: Challenges and Solutions.- Broadcast Video Content Segmentation by Supervised Learning.- Audio Content Discovery: An Unsupervised Approach.- Capturing Text Semantics for Concept Detection in News Video.- High-Level Feature Detection from Video in TRECVid: A 5-Year Retrospective of Achievements.- Experiential Sampling for Object Detection in Video.- Experiential Media Systems #x2013; The Biofeedback Project.- Assessing the Usability of Video Browsing and Summarization Techniques.- Multimedia Analysis for Content Identification.- Sports Video Analysis: From Semantics to Tactics.- Video Fire Detection #x2013; Techniques and Applications in the Fire Industry.- Automatic Home Video Editing.- A Video Browsing enabled Personal Video Recorder.