Ontology Based Multimedia Indexing

The multimedia indexing and management is a very important issue in the actual context where various domains such as news gathering, TV, banks of resources for commercial or consumer applications, collaborative work, video surveillance are flooded by a huge amount of multimedia sources. The traditional multimedia indexation techniques are focused on the effective multimedia content processing, being mainly in charge with low-level multimedia features analysis. They could capture some information about the content description (such as shapes or faces recognition), but not in terms of high-level concepts (such as ontology or vocabulary concepts). The chapter is focused on possible solutions for the problem of bridging the “semantic gap” between low-level multimedia AbsTRACT