Capturing the most significant milestones in the multimedia field, this book consists of invited chapters that cover the entire range of the field. It includes unique coverage of multimedia content analysis based products described by pioneers in the field.

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.

Captures the most significant milestones in the multimedia field Includes chapters by the leading researchers in the field Covers the latest in multimedia content analysis and applications Contains chapters on a range of topics including the TRECVID effort, low-level audio-visual analysis based retrieval, video browsing interfaces, and the human experience of multimedia, among others

Inhalt
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.