ACM Multimedia 2009 – Sirio

In this technical demonstration we show a web video search engine based on ontologies, the Sirio system, that has been developed within the EU VidiVideo project. The goal of the system is to provide a search engine for videos for both technical and non-technical users. In fact, the system has different interfaces that permit different query modalities: free-text, natural language, graphical composition of con- cepts using boolean and temporal relations and query by visual example. In addition, the ontology structure is ex- ploited to encode semantic relations between concepts per- mitting, for example, to expand queries to synonyms and concept specializations.

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ACM Multimedia 2009 – Arneb

In this technical demonstration we show the current version of Arneb, a web-based system for manual annotation of videos, developed within the EU VidiVideo project. This tool has been developed with the aim of creating ground truth annotations, that can be used for training and evalu- ating automatic video annotation systems. Annotations can be exported to MPEG-7 and OWL ontologies. The system has been developed according to the Rich Internet Applica- tion paradigm, allowing collaborative web-based annotation.

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Shawbak project: an interactive surface for museums and exhibitions

• Role: Executive Producer + Interactive Director
• Digital production / research: Media Integration and Communication Center, Firenze
• Agency: Opera, Firenze
• Live date: july 2009