International Conference on Multimedia Modeling 2013

The world is inherently complex and multimedia in nature. Recent advances in computing, networking and multimedia technologies have facilitated the construction of large and complex multimedia systems to fully comprehend the complexity of such undertakings, proper modeling of multimedia information and systems must be carried out.

The models should address three important aspects of multimedia systems -- systems and technologies, contents and users.

(1) At systems and technology level, the model provides high-level abstractions of systems, and permits the desirable properties of the system to be extracted and analyzed. It thus facilitates the development of uniform framework for integrating different systems, and for supporting effective interactions between the system and human users.

(2) The model for the information contents supports the processing of information at semantic level and enables the media to be active, in which the users may interact and manipulate the media contents directly to carry out high-level tasks such as the retrieval of additional information or the control of real-world entities.

(3) The model for users captures the interactions between the systems and the users. This includes the use of systems to retrieve information, and the use of tools to create contents.