Multimedia Ontology

Santanu Chaudhury did his BTech (1984) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering and PhD (1989) in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. He was also Dean, Undergraduate Studies at IIT Delhi. He was awarded INSA medal for young scientists in 1993. He is a fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences, India. He is also a fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition. His research interests are in the areas of Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Systems. He has published more than 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has been on the programme committee of a number of international conferences, including ICCV, ACCV, ICPR, ICVGIP, and PReMI.

The product of over 15 years of collective research, Multimedia Ontology: Representation and Applications provides a theoretical foundation for understanding the nature of media data and the principles involved in its interpretation. It presents a unified approach to discussing recent advances in multimedia and explains how a multimedia ontology can fill the semantic gap between concepts and the media world. It relays real-life examples of implementations in different domains to illustrate how this gap can be filled.

Introduction. Ontology and the Semantic Web. Characterizing Multimedia Semantics. Ontology Representations for Multimedia. Multimedia Web Ontology Language. Modeling the Semantics of Multimedia Content. Learning Multimedia Ontology. Applications Exploiting Multimedia Semantics. Distributed Multimedia Applications. Application of Multimedia Ontology in Heritage Preservation. Open Problems and Future Detectors. Appendices.