Title
DanVideo: an MPEG-7 authoring and retrieval system for dance videos
Abstract
A well-annotated dance media is an essential part of a nation's identity, transcending cultural and language barriers. Many dance video archives suffer from problems concerning authoring and access, because of the complex spatio-temporal relationships that exist between the dancers in terms of movements of their body parts and the emotions expressed by them in a dance. This paper presents a system named DanVideo for semi-automatic authoring and access to dance archives. DanVideo provides methods of annotation and authoring and retrieval tools for choreographers, dancers, and students. We demonstrate how dance media can be semantically annotated and how this information can be used for the retrieval of the dance video semantics. In particular, DanVideo offers an MPEG-7 based semi-automatic authoring tool that takes dance video annotations generated by dance experts and produces MPEG-7 metadata. DanVideo also has a search engine that takes users' queries and retrieves dance semantics from metadata arranged using tree-embedding technique and based on spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal features of dancers. The search engine also leverages a domain-specific ontology to process knowledge-based queries. We have assessed the dance-video queries and semantic annotations in terms of precision, recall, and fidelity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s11042-009-0388-3
Multimedia Tools Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
MPEG-7,Dance media annotation,Dance ontology,Semantic retrieval,Tree embedding
Tree embedding,Metadata,Ontology,Dance,Fidelity,World Wide Web,Annotation,Computer science,Recall,Multimedia,Semantics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
46
2-3
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.59
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rajkumar Kannan1406.88
Frederic Andres25112.80
Christian Gütl322834.68