This exquisitely detailed and thorough account offers very interesting and useful insight into the semantics of multimedia and the state of the art of multimedia modeling and semantic-based applications related to multimedia.

The book consists of ten chapters and can be easily adopted as a textbook or reference material. It introduces the topic in chapter 1 and consequently offers a very succinct and compact introduction to the semantic web. Chapters 3 to 7 discuss different facets of multimedia modeling with ontologies, and present the state of the art and the accepted standards for these representations such as MOWL. They also outline different approaches of acquiring multimedia ontology.

Chapters 8 to 10 turn to application aspects of multimedia semantics by pointing out methods of multimedia data integration, event pattern detection, trend analysis, social media aggregation, web-scale multimedia data harvesting and processing, distributed architectures for multimedia representation, and a use case of modeling intangible heritage preservation with Indian classical dance.

A fundamental account of multimedia ontology and semantics, with a very deep and detailed explanation of the problems and the state of the art of this young field, and with sufficient examples and a rich list of references, this book is good reading for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in semantics, ontologies, the semantic web, multimedia, and their convergence in order to build powerful, intelligent web-scale applications based on the semantics of multimedia.