Managing Multimedia Semantics

Managing Multimedia Semantics ties together current approaches and future trends. In one comprehensive volume, this book assembles research problems, theoretical frameworks, tools and technologies required for designing multimedia information systems. Managing Multimedia Semantics is aimed at researchers and practitioners involved in designing and managing complex multimedia information systems. It also serves as a reference text for graduate students taking a course in designing multimedia information systems.

Dr. Uma Srinivasan is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO’s ICT Centre. She conducts research, provides expert knowledge in designing heterogeneous and multimedia information systems, and is involved in developing new approaches to delivering multimedia applications over the Internet and mobile devices. She works with industry and commercial partners, and provides consultancies for developing innovative multimedia applications. She was an active member of the International MPEG-7 community, which is developing multimedia description schemes for video content description, management and delivery. She serves as a reviewer and member of technical program and organizing committees for leading national and international conferences on multimedia information systems. She has several publications in the areas of video information systems and heterogeneous database integration. She also serves as visiting faculty at the University of Sydney and University of Western Sydney. She did her Masters degrees in Physics and Computer Science from India and holds a Ph.D. from University of New South Wales, Australia.

Dr. Surya Nepal is a Senior Research Scientist working on a consistency management in long running web service transactions project at CSIRO ICT Centre. His main research interest is in the development and implementation of algorithms and frameworks for multimedia data management and delivery. He obtained his BE from Regional Engineering college, Surat, India, ME from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand and Ph.D. from RMIT University, Australia. At CSIRO Surya undertook research into content-management problems faced by large collections of images and videos. His main interests are on high-level event detection and processing. He has worked in the areas of content-based image retrieval, query processing in multimedia databases, event detection in sports video, and spatio-temporal modelling and querying video databases. He has several papers in these areas to his credit.