Augmenting Social Multimedia Semantic Interaction through Audio-Enhanced Web-TV Services
Nikolaos Tsipas, Panagiotis Zapartas, Lazaros Vrysis, Charalampos A. Dimoulas · 2015
Multimedia semantic analysis is a key element in managing the exponentially growing amount of produced multimedia content, available on the web and the social media. Towards this direction, a semantically enhanced Web-TV environment providing video-on-demand and simulcast streaming services, is proposed. The system offers content management and analysis automation capabilities by exploiting information derived from the semantic analysis of the user uploaded content and the social interaction of its users through the processes of annotation and tagging. A fusion based approach is employed for the categorization of content, enabling users to combine heterogeneous semantic information, thus enhancing content exploration with rich media experience. The paper focuses on the analysis of the system's architecture, the applied methodologies for incorporating user generated classification schemes and annotations, and the evaluation of machine learning algorithms to provide innovative multimedia content exploration methods.