Semantic technologies for multimedia content: foundations and applications

Abstract

Higher-level semantics for multimedia content is essential to answer questions like ``Give me all presentations of German Physicists of the 20th century''. The tutorial provides an introduction and overview to such semantics and the developments in multimedia metadata. It introduces current advancements for describing media on the web using Linked Open Data and other more expressive semantic technologies. The application of such technologies will be shown at concrete examples.