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(a) Maya’s 6th Birthday (b) June Goa Holiday
FIGURE 7.2: Image annotations: depict context not content.
for learning ontologies from text can be applied to this data to construct
ontologies.
We have found that limited research exists in the area of ontology learn-
ing from multimedia data. One of the initial research projects that tried to
bridge the semantic gap by a collaborative effort to define a standard for-
mal vocabulary for the annotation and retrieval of video was the Large-Scale
Concept Ontology for Multimedia (LSCOM) project [138], mentioned earlier
in section 4.5. The effort led to formation ...