Phivos Mylonas - Böcker

Broad in scope, Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Processing provides a complete reference of techniques, algorithms, and solutions for the design and the implementation of contemporary multimedia systems. Offering a balanced, global look at the latest advances in semantic indexing, retrieval, analysis, and processing of multimedia, the book features the contributions of renowned researchers from around the world. Its contents are based on four fundamental thematic pillars: 1) information and content retrieval, 2) semantic knowledge exploitation paradigms, 3) multimedia personalization, and 4) human-computer affective multimedia interaction. Its 15 chapters cover key topics such as content creation, annotation and modeling for the semantic web, multimedia content understanding, and efficiency and scalability.Fostering a deeper understanding of a popular area of research, the text: Describes state-of-the-art schemes and applicationsSupplies authoritative guidance on research and deployment issuesPresents novel methods and applications in an informative and reproducible wayContains numerous examples, illustrations, and tables summarizing results from quantitative studiesConsiders ongoing trends and designates future challenges and research perspectivesIncludes bibliographic links for further explorationUses both SI and US unitsIdeal for engineers and scientists specializing in the design of multimedia systems, software applications, and image/video analysis and processing technologies, Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Processing aids researchers, practitioners, and developers in finding innovative solutions to existing problems, opening up new avenues of research in uncharted waters.

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 processing of content and recognizing patterns in users’ behaviour on the other. Personalizing and adapting the semantic content of multimedia enables applications to make just-in-time intelligent decisions regarding this content, which in turn makes interaction with the multimedia content an individual and individually rewarding experience. Highlighting the changing nature of the field, Advances in Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, Volume Two discusses the state of the art, recent advances, and future outlooks for semantic media adaptation and personalization.Topics include:Collaborative Content ModelingAutomatic Content Feature Extraction to Content ModelsSemantic Languages for Content DescriptionVideo Content AdaptationAdaptive Video Content RetrievalContent Similarity DetectionPersonalized Content PodcastingAdaptive Web InteractionAs content and service providers recognize the value of new services and new markets, they will invest in technologies that adapt and personalize content. Industry, in response, has released new standards such as MPEG-7, MPEG21, and VC-1 that enable propagation of semantic media, adaptation, and personalization. Consequently, a broad range of applications are emerging across many industry sectors, such as music, film, games, television, and sports. Bringing together insight from researchers and practitioners, this book provides a sampling of the latest thinking in the field.

Broad in scope, Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Processing provides a complete reference of techniques, algorithms, and solutions for the design and the implementation of contemporary multimedia systems. Offering a balanced, global look at the latest advances in semantic indexing, retrieval, analysis, and processing of multimedia, the book features the contributions of renowned researchers from around the world. Its contents are based on four fundamental thematic pillars: 1) information and content retrieval, 2) semantic knowledge exploitation paradigms, 3) multimedia personalization, and 4) human-computer affective multimedia interaction. Its 15 chapters cover key topics such as content creation, annotation and modeling for the semantic web, multimedia content understanding, and efficiency and scalability.Fostering a deeper understanding of a popular area of research, the text: Describes state-of-the-art schemes and applicationsSupplies authoritative guidance on research and deployment issuesPresents novel methods and applications in an informative and reproducible wayContains numerous examples, illustrations, and tables summarizing results from quantitative studiesConsiders ongoing trends and designates future challenges and research perspectivesIncludes bibliographic links for further explorationUses both SI and US unitsIdeal for engineers and scientists specializing in the design of multimedia systems, software applications, and image/video analysis and processing technologies, Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Processing aids researchers, practitioners, and developers in finding innovative solutions to existing problems, opening up new avenues of research in uncharted waters.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Augmented Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2023, held in Corfu, Greece, during June 2-5, 2023.The 41 full papers and 19 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers are divided into the following topical sections: augmented intelligence in tutoring systems; augmented intelligence in healthcare informatics; augmented intelligence in games, serious games and virtual reality; neural networks and data mining; augmented intelligence and metaverse; security, privacy and ethics in augmented intelligence; and applied natural language processing.

This book summarizes the research findings presented at the 3rd International Conference on Novel & Intelligent Digital Systems (NiDS 2023). NiDS 2023 places significant importance on the innovations within intelligent systems and the collaborative research that empowers and enriches artificial intelligence (AI) in software development.

This book summarizes the research findings presented at the 3rd International Conference on Novel & Intelligent Digital Systems (NiDS 2023). NiDS 2023 places significant importance on the innovations within intelligent systems and the collaborative research that empowers and enriches artificial intelligence (AI) in software development.

This book compiles the research findings presented at the 4th International Conference on Novel & Intelligent Digital Systems (NiDS 2024), which took place in Athens, Greece, on September 25-27, 2024, hosted by the University of West Attica.

This book presents the research contributions from the 5th International Conference on Novel and Intelligent Digital Systems (NiDS 2025), held in Athens, Greece, on September 24–26, 2025, and hosted by the University of West Attica. Continuing the success of previous editions, NiDS 2025 embraced a hybrid format, enabling global participation both onsite and online.The conference focused on cutting-edge developments in intelligent and adaptive digital systems, with particular emphasis on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its transformative impact on software engineering, digital applications, and human-centered technologies. NiDS 2025 provided a high-impact platform for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to present original research, exchange ideas, and engage in dialogue across a wide range of disciplines—from computational intelligence and data science to smart systems and emerging digital infrastructures.By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, NiDS 2025 strengthened global research networks and promoted innovation that bridges academia and industry. This collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the future of intelligent digital systems and the evolving challenges of AI-driven development.

This book presents the research contributions from the 5th International Conference on Novel and Intelligent Digital Systems (NiDS 2025), held in Athens, Greece, on September 24–26, 2025, and hosted by the University of West Attica. Continuing the success of previous editions, NiDS 2025 embraced a hybrid format, enabling global participation both onsite and online.The conference focused on cutting-edge developments in intelligent and adaptive digital systems, with particular emphasis on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its transformative impact on software engineering, digital applications, and human-centered technologies. NiDS 2025 provided a high-impact platform for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to present original research, exchange ideas, and engage in dialogue across a wide range of disciplines—from computational intelligence and data science to smart systems and emerging digital infrastructures.By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, NiDS 2025 strengthened global research networks and promoted innovation that bridges academia and industry. This collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the future of intelligent digital systems and the evolving challenges of AI-driven development.

This book presents the research contributions from the 5th International Conference on Novel and Intelligent Digital Systems (NiDS 2025), held in Athens, Greece, on September 24–26, 2025, and hosted by the University of West Attica. Continuing the success of previous editions, NiDS 2025 embraced a hybrid format, enabling global participation both onsite and online.The conference focused on cutting-edge developments in intelligent and adaptive digital systems, with particular emphasis on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its transformative impact on software engineering, digital applications, and human-centered technologies. NiDS 2025 provided a high-impact platform for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to present original research, exchange ideas, and engage in dialogue across a wide range of disciplines—from computational intelligence and data science to smart systems and emerging digital infrastructures.By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, NiDS 2025 strengthened global research networks and promoted innovation that bridges academia and industry. This collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the future of intelligent digital systems and the evolving challenges of AI-driven development.

Realizing the growing importance of semantic adaptation and personalization of media, the editors of this book brought together leading researchers and practitioners of the field to discuss the state-of-the-art, and explore emerging exciting developments. This volume comprises extended versions of selected papers presented at the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2006), which took place in Athens in December 2006.

Realizing the growing importance of semantic adaptation and personalization of media, the editors of this book brought together leading researchers and practitioners of the field to discuss the state-of-the-art, and explore emerging exciting developments. This volume comprises extended versions of selected papers presented at the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2006), which took place in Athens in December 2006.

Semantics in Adaptive and Personalised Services, initially strikes one as a specific and perhaps narrow domain. Yet, a closer examination of the term reveals much more. On one hand there is the issue of semantics. Nowadays, this most often refers to the use of OWL, RDF or some other XML based ontology description language in order to represent the entities of  problem. Still, semantics may also very well refer to the consideration of the meanings and concepts, rather than arithmetic measures, regardless of the representation used. On the other hand, there is the issue of adaptation, i.e. automated re-configuration based on some context. This could be the network and device context, the application context or the user context; we refer to the latter case as personalization. From a different perspective, there is the issue of the point of view from which to examine the topic. There is the point of view of tools, referring to the algorithms and software tools one can use, the point of view of the methods, referring to the abstract methodologies and best practices one can  follow, as well as the point of view of applications, referring to successful and pioneering case studies that lead the way in research and innovation. Or at least so we thought.Based on the above reasoning, the editors identified key researchers and practitioners in each of the aforementioned categories and invited them to contribute a corresponding work to this book. However, as the authors’ contributions started to arrive, the editors also started to realize that although these categories participate in each chapter to different degrees, none of them can ever be totally obsolete from them. Moreover, it seems that theory and methods are inherent in the development of tools and applications and inversely the application is also inherent in the motivation and presentation of tools and methods.

Semantics in Adaptive and Personalised Services, initially strikes one as a specific and perhaps narrow domain. Yet, a closer examination of the term reveals much more. On one hand there is the issue of semantics. Nowadays, this most often refers to the use of OWL, RDF or some other XML based ontology description language in order to represent the entities of  problem. Still, semantics may also very well refer to the consideration of the meanings and concepts, rather than arithmetic measures, regardless of the representation used. On the other hand, there is the issue of adaptation, i.e. automated re-configuration based on some context. This could be the network and device context, the application context or the user context; we refer to the latter case as personalization. From a different perspective, there is the issue of the point of view from which to examine the topic. There is the point of view of tools, referring to the algorithms and software tools one can use, the point of view of the methods, referring to the abstract methodologies and best practices one can  follow, as well as the point of view of applications, referring to successful and pioneering case studies that lead the way in research and innovation. Or at least so we thought.Based on the above reasoning, the editors identified key researchers and practitioners in each of the aforementioned categories and invited them to contribute a corresponding work to this book. However, as the authors’ contributions started to arrive, the editors also started to realize that although these categories participate in each chapter to different degrees, none of them can ever be totally obsolete from them. Moreover, it seems that theory and methods are inherent in the development of tools and applications and inversely the application is also inherent in the motivation and presentation of tools and methods.

Nowadays, more and more users are witnessing the impact of Hypermedia/Multimedia as well as the penetration of social applications in their life. Parallel to the evolution of the Internet and Web, several Hypermedia/Multimedia schemes and technologies bring semantic-based intelligent, personalized and adaptive services to the end users. More and more techniques are applied in media systems in order to be user/group-centric, adapting to different content and context features of a single or a community user. In respect to all the above, researchers need to explore and study the plethora of challenges that emergent personalisation and adaptation technologies bring to the new era. This edited volume aims to increase the awareness of researchers in this area. All contributions provide an in-depth investigation on research and deployment issues, regarding already introduced schemes and applications in Semantic Hyper/Multimedia and Social Media Adaptation. Moreover, the authors provide survey-based articles, so as potential readers can use it for catching up the recent trends and applications in respect to the relevant literature. Finally, the authors discuss and present their approach in the respective field or problem addressed.