Advances in Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, Volume 2

The emergence of content- and context-aware search engines, which not only personalize searching and delivery but also the content, has caused the emergence of new infrastructures capable of end-to-end ubiquitous transmission of personalized multimedia content to any device on any network at any time. Personalizing and adapting content requires pro

Marios C. Angelides, Phivos Mylonas, Manolis Wallace

Multimedia Metadata 2.0: Challenges of Collaborative Content Modelling. Research Directions toward User-centric Multimedia. User-Centred Adaptation of User Interfaces for Heterogeneous Environments. Video Adaptation Based on Content Characteristics and Hardware Capabilities. Towards Next Generation In-flight Entertainment Systems: A Survey of the State of the Art and Possible Extensions. Towards an Adaptive Video Retrieval System. On Using Information Retrieval Techniques for Semantic Media Adaptation. Interactive Video Browsing of H.264 Content based on Just-in-Time Analysis. Personalized Faceted Navigation in Semantically Enriched Information Spaces. Personalized Audiovisual Content-based Podcasting. Use of similarity detection techniques for adaptive news content delivery and user profiling. Towards an Adaptive and Personalized Web Interaction using Human Factors. Image Based Synthesis for Human facial Expression. Image Retrieval Using Particle Swarm Optimization. Image Description using Scale-Space Edge Pixel Directions Histogram. A Semantic Language for Description and Detection of Visual Events. MPEG-7 based semantic indexing of Film Heritage audio-visual content. Automatic Feature Extration to an MPEG-7 content model.