Lynda Hardman – författare

This bookgives a start-to-finish overview of the whole Fish4Knowledge project, in 18short chapters, each describing one aspect of the project. The Fish4Knowledgeproject explored the possibilities of big video data, in this case fromundersea video. Recording and analyzing 90 thousand hours of video from tencamera locations, the project gives a 3 year view of fish abundance in severaltropical coral reefs off the coast of Taiwan. The research system built aremote recording network, over 100 Tb of storage, supercomputer processing,video target detection and tracking, fish species recognition and analysis, alarge SQL database to record the results and an efficient retrieval mechanism.Novel user interface mechanisms were developed to provide easy access formarine ecologists, who wanted to explore the dataset. The book is a usefulresource for system builders, as it gives an overview of the many new methodsthat were created to build the Fish4Knowledge system in a manner that alsoallows readers to see how all the components fit together.

This bookgives a start-to-finish overview of the whole Fish4Knowledge project, in 18short chapters, each describing one aspect of the project.

WearepleasedtowelcomeyoutotheproceedingsoftheThirdInternationalC- ference onSemantic andDigital Media Technologiesheld inKoblenz,Germany. The SAMT agenda brings together researchers at extreme ends of the - mantic multimedia spectrum. At one end, the Semantic Web and its supporting technologies are becoming established in both the open data environment and within specialist domains, such as corporate intranet search, e-Science (parti- larly life sciences), and cultural heritage. To facilitate the world-wide sharing of media, W3C is developing standard ways of denoting fragments of audio/visual content and of specifying and associating semantics with these. At the other end of the spectrum, media analysis tools continue to grow in sophistication, identifying features that can then be associated with explicit semantics, be they expressed formally or informally, using proprietary formats or open standards. Recent progress at these two fronts of the SAMT spectrum means that research spanningthesemanticgapisnowofvitalimportancetofeedtherealapplications that are emerging. This conference also represents a step towards bridging the gap between the research cultures and their respective approaches at both ends of the spectrum. The papers selected show that SAMT is able to attract researchers from media analysis, who see the bene?ts that more explicit semantics can provide, as well as researchers from knowledge engineering who realize that, while a picture can be expressed as a thousand concepts, a million morearewaiting to be extracted.