Content based editing of semantic video metadata

Bridging the ´signal-symbol gap´ existing between multimedia signals generated through audio, video or other multimedia streams and the high level symbols (metadata) which describe them is presently one of the most vital areas of multimedia research. The paper attempts to bridge this significant gap by proposing a novel automatic mechanism for XML based video metadata editing, in tandem with video editing operations. An implementation framework for editing metadata in accordance with the video editing operations is demonstrated. Conflicting resolution and regularization operations are defined and implemented with respect to video metadata editing operations.