An empirical study of inter-concept similarities in multimedia ontologies

Generic concept detection has been a widely studied topic in recent research on multimedia analysis and retrieval, but the issue of how to exploit the structure of a multimedia ontology as well as different inter-concept relations, has not received similar attention. In this paper, we present results from our empirical analysis of different types of similarity among semantic concepts in two multimedia ontologies, LSCOM-Lite and CDVP-206. The results show promise that the proposed methods may be helpful in providing insight into the existing inter-concept relations within an ontology and selecting the most facilitating set of concepts and hierarchical relations. Such an analysis as this can be utilized in various tasks such as building more reliable concept detectors and designing large-scale ontologies. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.1 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Content Analysis and Indexing; H.2.4 [Database Management]: Systems—Multimedia databases General Terms...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CIVR
• Authors: Markus Koskela, Alan F. Smeaton
• Keywords: CIVR 2007, Concept Detection, Multimedia Ontologies, Semantic Concept