Semantic Media Project Introduction - Mark Sandler (Barbican Arts Centre, Oct 2012)
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Mark SandlerBarbican Arts Centre, October 2012
Project Introduction
Semantic Media – Problem Area
TV Productions Music / Radio Productions
Film Productions Photo Productions
Consumer: How to find relevant content in large media collections?Producer: How to monetize, how to subvert piracy?
Source of images: Google
Navigation in Content Collections:Previous Approaches
Automatic annotations often not as detailed and robust as needed
Reason: Metadata does not incorporate relevant external information
Reason: Automatic methods have no access to knowledge only available during production
User interfaces are not as rich as needed
Semantic Media - Concept 1:Annotation As Part of Production Workflow
Employing knowledge of the production process leads to simplified and hence more robust (automatic) metadata generation procedures
Integrating additional information usually discarded after production allows for richer annotations
Resulting novel workflow systems facilitate automation and assist content producers as well consumers throughout the content life-cycle
Semantic Media - Concept 1: Example
Source of image: Wikipedia
Metadata: Where was this picture taken?What is in it? What’s the weather like?
Semantic Media - Concept 1: Example
Metadata: Who are the actors (in this episode)?What are the story lines?
Semantic Media - Concept 2: Incorporating Global Knowledge Using Linked Data Technology
Managing and exposing enhanced metadata using semantic web and linked data technology allows for uniting various sources of information and thus improving the user experience with richer interfaces
Semantic Media - Concept 2: Example
BBC Music website
Structured Wikipedia Data
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Improved User Experience
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More about this later…
Goals of the Semantic Media Project
Creating a forum for researchers / developers Encouraging interdisciplinary research bringing together
specialists across the entire ICT sector Sparking new collaborations between researchers
(including industry partners) by funding mini-projects, student exchanges and internships
Encourage leading researchers to develop roadmaps guiding the direction of future research efforts and grant applications
Encourage substantial grant applications: UK & EU
Semantic Media – The Network
Future challenges and opportunities require researchers from across the ICT landscape to contribute and collaborate
EPSRC priority “Working Together” Semantic Media Network as a hub for future collaborative
grant applications
Funding - Opportunities and Examples
Exchange of students across working groups and internships / placements
Construction of ontologies appropriate for 3D+t content description (sound, video, objects)
Capturing of motion information in a film/tv set to capture scene-descriptive metadata to associate with the primary media stream (i.e. video)
Fusion of metadata from disparate sources to build a composite metadata stream associated with a single media stream, propagating through the value chain from producer to consumer, e.g:
Metadata from several musical instruments to create a composite harmony stream
Motion metadata streams from several actors in a scene to create a composite action stream
Combining rights-related metadata (e.g. using MPEG Value Chain Ontology [9]), user generated and other tags downstream from creation
Application of temporal logic on (time-structured) media metadata streams [8]
Use of capture-at-source metadata to enhance the production workflow
Ethnographic studies of metadata-enhanced production tools to assess their fitness for purpose
Funding - Application
1.) Short semi-formal application
2.) Steering committee selects best ideas
3.) Start working
Funding available for 10-20 projects £10k-£50k each
More details on the website soon…
Getting involved
Just the beginning forming a network. Participate by:
Join our mailing list for announcements and discussions (soon to come and you will be informed about it)
Have an idea for a feasibility study and put it on our idea-wiki
Become an active member of the steering committee
Help organizing meetings (maybe focused on a specific subfield)
Help documenting the research landscape by participating in the landscape-wiki
Participate in future meetings, sandpits, tutorials, as well as collaborative grants and paper submissions
Help identifying people who might be interested in this network and invite them (or tell us)
Check our website: semanticmedia.org.uk
Programme For Today
09:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:30 Project Introduction: Mark Sandler (Queen Mary, University of London)
09:45
Invited talk: Karlheinz Brandenburg (Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Illmenau, Germany): Extraction of metadata from media data: From music recommendation to recognition of big apes
10:45 Networking Event: 60 second quick-fire summaries of the participants' background and interests.
12:00 Fingerfood Buffet with Poster Presentations and Demos
13:30 Invited Talk: David De Roure (Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford)
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 Invited Talk: Yves Raimond and David Rogers (BBC)
16:00 Networking Event: "Speeddating"
17:00 End