Video Annotation with Pictorially Enriched Ontologies

Video annotation is typically performed by classifying video elements according to some pre-defined ontology of the video content domain. Ontologies are defined by establishing relationships between linguistic terms, that specify domain concepts at different abstraction levels. However, although linguistic terms are appropriate to distinguish event and object categories, they are inadequate when they must describe specific patterns of events or video entities. Instead, in these cases, pattern specifications are better expressed through visual prototypes that capture the essence of the event or entity. Pictorially enriched ontologies, that include visual concepts together with linguistic keywords, are therefore needed to support video annotation up to the level of detail of pattern specification. This paper presents pictorially enriched ontologies and provide a solution for their implementation in the soccer video domain. The pictorially enriched ontology is used both to directly ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICMCS
• Authors: Marco Bertini, Rita Cucchiara, Alberto Del Bimbo, Carlo Torniai
• Keywords: ICMCS 2005, Linguistic Terms, Pattern Specification, Video Annotation