Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: Retrieval, User, and Semantics

Invited Contributions.- Learning Distance Functions for Automatic Annotation of Images.- Ontology: Use and Abuse.- Image Annotation.- Imagination: Exploiting Link Analysis for Accurate Image Annotation.- Automatic Image Annotation Using a Visual Dictionary Based on Reliable Image Segmentation.- Improving Automatic Image Annotation Based on Word Co-occurrence.- Feedback and User Modelling.- Automatic Image Annotation with Relevance Feedback and Latent Semantic Analysis.- A Novel Retrieval Refinement and Interaction Pattern by Exploring Result Correlations for Image Retrieval.- User Modelling for Interactive User-Adaptive Collection Structuring.- Music Retrieval.- Searching for Music Using Natural Language Queries and Relevance Feedback.- Automatically Detecting Members and Instrumentation of Music Bands Via Web Content Mining.- A System for Automatic Chord Transcription from Audio Using Genre-Specific Hidden Markov Models.- Fusion.- Information Fusion in Multimedia Information Retrieval.- Multi-level Fusion for Semantic Video Content Indexing and Retrieval.- P2P and Middleware.- Image Data Source Selection Using Gaussian Mixture Models.- Designing a Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Distributed Image Retrieval.- Databases and Summarization.- Comparison of Dimension Reduction Methods for Database-Adaptive 3D Model Retrieval.- Smart Photo Sticking.- How to Use SIFT Vectors to Analyze an Image with Database Templates.- Ontology and Semantics.- Video Semantic Content Analysis Framework Based on Ontology Combined MPEG-7.- Trajectory Annotation and Retrieval Based on Semantics.