Semantic Multimedia, 2009 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2009 Graz, Austria, December 2-4, 2009 Proceedings Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI Series

This volume contains the full and short papers of SAMT 2009, the 4th Int- national Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies 2009 held in Graz, Austria. SAMT brings together researchers dealing with a broad range of research topics related to semantic multimedia and a great diversity of application - eas. The current research shows that adding and using semantics of multimedia content is broadening its scope from search and retrieval to the complete media life cycle, from content creation to distribution and consumption, thus lever- ing new possibilities in creating, sharing and reusing multimedia content. While some of the contributions present improvements in automatic analysis and - notation methods, there is increasingly more work dealing with visualization, user interaction and collaboration. We can also observe ongoing standardization activities related to semantic multimedia in both W3C and MPEG, forming a solid basis for a wide adoption. Theconferencereceived41submissionsthisyear,ofwhichtheProgramC- mittee selected 13 full papers for oral presentation and 8 short papers for poster presentation. In addition to the scienti?c papers, the conference program - cluded two invited talks by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Stefan Rug ? er and a demo session showing results from three European projects. The day before the main conference o?ered an industry day with presen- tions and demos that showed the growing importance of semantic technologies in real-world applications as well as the research challenges coming from them.

Keynote Talk: Mining the Web 2.0 for Improved Image Search.- Keynote Talk: Mining the Web 2.0 for Improved Image Search.- Keynote Talk: More than a Thousand Words.- Content Organization and Browsing.- A Simulated User Study of Image Browsing Using High-Level Classification.- Exploring Relationships between Annotated Images with the ChainGraph Visualization.- On the Coöperative Creation of Multimedia Meaning.- Annotation and Tagging I.- On the Feasibility of a Tag-Based Approach for Deciding Which Objects a Picture Shows: An Empirical Study.- Statement-Based Semantic Annotation of Media Resources.- Large Scale Tag Recommendation Using Different Image Representations.- Interoperable Multimedia Metadata through Similarity-Based Semantic Web Service Discovery.- Content Distribution and Delivery.- Semantic Expression and Execution of B2B Contracts on Multimedia Content.- A Conceptual Model for Publishing Multimedia Content on the Semantic Web.- CAIN-21: An Extensible and Metadata-Driven Multimedia Adaptation Engine in the MPEG-21 Framework.- Annotation and Tagging II.- Shot Boundary Detection Based on Eigen Coefficients and Small Eigen Value.- Shape-Based Autotagging of 3D Models for Retrieval.- PixGeo: Geographically Grounding Touristic Personal Photographs.- Short Papers.- Method for Identifying Task Hardships by Analyzing Operational Logs of Instruction Videos.- Multimodal Semantic Analysis of Public Transport Movements.- CorpVis: An Online Emotional Speech Corpora Visualisation Interface.- Incremental Context Creation and Its Effects on Semantic Query Precision.- OntoFilm: A Core Ontology for Film Production.- RelFinder: Revealing Relationships in RDF Knowledge Bases.- Image Annotation Refinement Using Web-Based Keyword Correlation.- Automatic Rating and Selection of Digital Photographs.