A sermon concerning doing good to posterity [[electronic resource] ] : preach'd before Their Majesties at White-Hall, on February 16, 1689/[9]0 / / by Thomas Tenison .

• Record Nr.: UNISA996384863903316
• Autore: Tenison Thomas <1636-1715.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed for Richard Chiswell ..., 1690
• Descrizione fisica: [4], 30, [2] p
• Soggetti: Sermons, English - 17th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Half title.; Advertisement: p. [1]-[2] at end.; Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0113

Multimedia semantics : metadata, analysis and interaction / / Raphaèel Troncy, Benoit Huet, Simon Schenk

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910139612903321
• Autore: Troncy Raphael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : , : Wiley, , 2011; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2011]
• ISBN: 1-283-20439-8; 9786613204394; 1-119-97062-8; 1-119-97023-7; 1-119-97022-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HuetBenoit; SchenkSimon
• Disciplina: 006.7
• Soggetti: Multimedia systems; Semantic computing; Information retrieval; Database searching; Metadata
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword xi -- List of Figures xiii -- List of Tables xvii -- List of Contributors xix -- 1 Introduction 1 / Raphaël Troncy, Benoit Huet and Simon Schenk -- 2 Use Case Scenarios 7 / Werner Bailer, Susanne Boll, Oscar Celma, Michael Hausenblas and Yves Raimond -- 2.1 Photo Use Case 8 -- 2.1.1 Motivating Examples 8 -- 2.1.2 Semantic Description of Photos Today 9 -- 2.1.3 Services We Need for Photo Collections 10 -- 2.2 Music Use Case 10 -- 2.2.1 Semantic Description of Music Assets 11 -- 2.2.2 Music Recommendation and Discovery 12 -- 2.2.3 Management of Personal Music Collections 13 -- 2.3 Annotation in Professional Media Production and Archiving 14 -- 2.3.1 Motivating Examples 15 -- 2.3.2 Requirements for Content Annotation 17 -- 2.4 Discussion 18 -- Acknowledgements 19 -- 3 Canonical Processes of ; Semantically Annotated Media Production 21 / Lynda Hardman, ZÆêljko Obrenovic ́and Frank Nack -- 3.1 Canonical Processes 22 -- 3.1.1 Premeditate 23 -- 3.1.2 Create Media Asset 23 -- 3.1.3 Annotate 23 -- 3.1.4 Package 24 -- 3.1.5 Query 24 -- 3.1.6 Construct Message 25 -- 3.1.7 Organize 25 -- 3.1.8 Publish 26 -- 3.1.9 Distribute 26 -- 3.2 Example Systems 27 -- 3.2.1 CeWe Color Photo Book 27 -- 3.2.2 SenseCam 29 -- 3.3 Conclusion and Future Work 33 -- 4 Feature Extraction for Multimedia Analysis 35 / Rachid Benmokhtar, Benoit Huet, Gaël Richard and Slim Essid -- 4.1 Low-Level Feature Extraction 36 -- 4.1.1 What Are Relevant Low-Level Features? 36 -- 4.1.2 Visual Descriptors 36 -- 4.1.3 Audio Descriptors 45 -- 4.2 Feature Fusion and Multi-modality 54 -- 4.2.1 Feature Normalization 54 -- 4.2.2 Homogeneous Fusion 55 -- 4.2.3 Cross-modal Fusion 56 -- 4.3 Conclusion 58 -- 5 Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Analysis 59 / Slim Essid, Marine Campedel, Gaël Richard, Tomas Piatrik, Rachid Benmokhtar and Benoit Huet -- 5.1 Feature Selection 61 -- 5.1.1 Selection Criteria 61 -- 5.1.2 Subset Search 62 -- 5.1.3 Feature Ranking 63 -- 5.1.4 A Supervised Algorithm Example 63 -- 5.2 Classification 65.; 5.2.1 Historical Classification Algorithms 65 -- 5.2.2 Kernel Methods 67 -- 5.2.3 Classifying Sequences 71 -- 5.2.4 Biologically Inspired Machine Learning Techniques 73 -- 5.3 Classifier Fusion 75 -- 5.3.1 Introduction 75 -- 5.3.2 Non-trainable Combiners 75 -- 5.3.3 Trainable Combiners 76 -- 5.3.4 Combination of Weak Classifiers 77 -- 5.3.5 Evidence Theory 78 -- 5.3.6 Consensual Clustering 78 -- 5.3.7 Classifier Fusion Properties 80 -- 5.4 Conclusion 80 -- 6 Semantic Web Basics 81 / Eyal Oren and Simon Schenk -- 6.1 The Semantic Web 82 -- 6.2 RDF 83 -- 6.2.1 RDF Graphs 86 -- 6.2.2 Named Graphs 87 -- 6.2.3 RDF Semantics 88 -- 6.3 RDF Schema 90 -- 6.4 Data Models 93 -- 6.5 Linked Data Principles 94 -- 6.5.1 Dereferencing Using Basic Web Look-up 95 -- 6.5.2 Dereferencing Using HTTP 303 Redirects 95 -- 6.6 Development Practicalities 96 -- 6.6.1 Data Stores 97 -- 6.6.2 Toolkits 97 -- 7 Semantic Web Languages 99 / Antoine Isaac, Simon Schenk and Ansgar Scherp -- 7.1 The Need for Ontologies on the Semantic Web 100 -- 7.2 Representing Ontological Knowledge Using OWL 100 -- 7.2.1 OWL Constructs and OWL Syntax 100 -- 7.2.2 The Formal Semantics of OWL and its Different Layers 102 -- 7.2.3 Reasoning Tasks 106 -- 7.2.4 OWL Flavors 107 -- 7.2.5 Beyond OWL 107 -- 7.3 A Language to Represent Simple Conceptual Vocabularies: SKOS 108 -- 7.3.1 Ontologies versus Knowledge Organization Systems 108 -- 7.3.2 Representing Concept Schemes Using SKOS 109 -- 7.3.3 Characterizing Concepts beyond SKOS 111 -- 7.3.4 Using SKOS Concept Schemes on the Semantic Web 112 -- 7.4 Querying on the Semantic Web 113 -- 7.4.1 Syntax 113 -- 7.4.2 Semantics 118 -- 7.4.3 Default Negation in SPARQL 123 -- 7.4.4 Well-Formed Queries 124 -- 7.4.5 Querying for Multimedia Metadata 124 -- 7.4.6 Partitioning Datasets 126 -- 7.4.7 Related Work 127 -- 8 Multimedia Metadata Standards 129 / Peter Schallauer, Werner Bailer, Raphaël Troncy and Florian Kaiser -- 8.1 Selected Standards 130 -- 8.1.1 MPEG-7 130 -- 8.1.2 EBU P_Meta 132.; 8.1.3 SMPTE Metadata Standards 133 -- 8.1.4 Dublin Core 133 -- 8.1.5 TV-Anytime 134 -- 8.1.6 METS and VRA 134 -- 8.1.7 MPEG-21 135 -- 8.1.8 XMP, IPTC in XMP 135 -- 8.1.9 EXIF 136 -- 8.1.10 DIG35 137 -- 8.1.11 ID3/MP3 137 -- 8.1.12 NewsML G2 and rNews 138 -- 8.1.13 W3C Ontology for Media Resources 138 -- 8.1.14 EBUCore 139 -- 8.2 Comparison 140 -- 8.3 Conclusion 143 -- 9 The Core Ontology for Multimedia 145 / Thomas Franz, Raphaël Troncy and Miroslav Vacura -- 9.1 Introduction 145 -- 9.2 A Multimedia Presentation for ; Granddad 146 -- 9.3 Related Work 149 -- 9.4 Requirements for Designing a Multimedia Ontology 150 -- 9.5 A Formal Representation for MPEG-7 150 -- 9.5.1 DOLCE as Modeling Basis 151 -- 9.5.2 Multimedia Patterns 151 -- 9.5.3 Basic Patterns 155 -- 9.5.4 Comparison with Requirements 157 -- 9.6 Granddad's Presentation Explained by COMM 157 -- 9.7 Lessons Learned 159 -- 9.8 Conclusion 160 -- 10 Knowledge-Driven Segmentation and Classification 163 / Thanos Athanasiadis, Phivos Mylonas, Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Vasileios Mezaris, Yannis Avrithis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and Michael G. Strintzis -- 10.1 Related Work 164 -- 10.2 Semantic Image Segmentation 165 -- 10.2.1 Graph Representation of an Image 165 -- 10.2.2 Image Graph Initialization 165 -- 10.2.3 Semantic Region Growing 167 -- 10.3 Using Contextual Knowledge to Aid Visual Analysis 170 -- 10.3.1 Contextual Knowledge Formulation 170 -- 10.3.2 Contextual Relevance 173 -- 10.4 Spatial Context and Optimization 177 -- 10.4.1 Introduction 177 -- 10.4.2 Low-Level Visual Information Processing 177 -- 10.4.3 Initial Region-Concept Association 178 -- 10.4.4 Final Region-Concept Association 179 -- 10.5 Conclusions 181 -- 11 Reasoning for Multimedia Analysis 183 / Nikolaos Simou, Giorgos Stoilos, Carsten Saathoff, Jan Nemrava, VojtÆech Svátek, Petr Berka and Vassilis Tzouvaras -- 11.1 Fuzzy DL Reasoning 184 -- 11.1.1 The Fuzzy DL f-SHIN 184 -- 11.1.2 The Tableaux Algorithm 185 -- 11.1.3 The FiRE Fuzzy Reasoning Engine 187.; 11.2 Spatial Features for Image Region Labeling 192 -- 11.2.1 Fuzzy Constraint Satisfaction Problems 192 -- 11.2.2 Exploiting Spatial Features Using Fuzzy -- Constraint Reasoning 193 -- 11.3 Fuzzy Rule Based Reasoning Engine 196 -- 11.4 Reasoning over Resources Complementary to Audiovisual Streams 201 -- 12 Multi-Modal Analysis for Content Structuring and Event Detection 205 / Noel E. O'Connor, David A. Sadlier, Bart Lehane, Andrew Salway, Jan Nemrava and Paul Buitelaar -- 12.1 Moving Beyond Shots for Extracting Semantics 206 -- 12.2 A Multi-Modal Approach 207 -- 12.3 Case Studies 207 -- 12.4 Case Study 1: Field Sports 208 -- 12.4.1 Content Structuring 208 -- 12.4.2 Concept Detection Leveraging Complementary Text Sources 213 -- 12.5 Case Study 2: Fictional Content 214 -- 12.5.1 Content Structuring 215 -- 12.5.2 Concept Detection Leveraging Audio Description 219 -- 12.6 Conclusions and Future Work 221 -- 13 Multimedia Annotation Tools 223 / Carsten Saathoff, Krishna Chandramouli, Werner Bailer, Peter Schallauer and Raphaël Troncy -- 13.1 State of the Art 224 -- 13.2 SVAT: Professional Video Annotation 225 -- 13.2.1 User Interface 225 -- 13.2.2 Semantic Annotation 228 -- 13.3 KAT: Semi-automatic, Semantic Annotation of Multimedia Content 229 -- 13.3.1 History 231 -- 13.3.2 Architecture 232 -- 13.3.3 Default Plugins 234 -- 13.3.4 Using COMM as an Underlying Model: Issues and Solutions 234 -- 13.3.5 Semi-automatic Annotation: An Example 237 -- 13.4 Conclusions 239 -- 14 Information Organization Issues in Multimedia Retrieval Using Low-Level Features 241 / Frank Hopfgartner, Reede Ren, Thierry Urruty and Joemon M. Jose -- 14.1 Efficient Multimedia Indexing Structures 242 -- 14.1.1 An Efficient Access Structure for Multimedia Data 243 -- 14.1.2 Experimental Results 245 -- 14.1.3 Conclusion 249 -- 14.2 Feature Term Based Index 249 -- 14.2.1 Feature Terms 250 -- 14.2.2 Feature Term Distribution 251 -- 14.2.3 Feature Term Extraction 252 -- 14.2.4 Feature Dimension Selection 253.; 14.2.5 Collection Representation and Retrieval System 254 -- 14.2.6 Experiment 256 -- 14.2.7 Conclusion 258 -- 14.3 Conclusion and Future Trends 259 -- Acknowledgement 259 -- 15 The Role of Explicit ; Semantics in Search and Browsing 261 / Michiel Hildebrand, Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Lynda Hardman -- 15.1 Basic Search Terminology 261 -- 15.2 Analysis of Semantic Search 262 -- 15.2.1 Query Construction 263 -- 15.2.2 Search Algorithm 265 -- 15.2.3 Presentation of Results 267 -- 15.2.4 Survey Summary 269 -- 15.3 Use Case A: Keyword Search in ClioPatria 270 -- 15.3.1 Query Construction 270 -- 15.3.2 Search Algorithm 270 -- 15.3.3 Result Visualization and Organization 273 -- 15.4 Use Case B: Faceted Browsing in ClioPatria 274 -- 15.4.1 Query Construction 274 -- 15.4.2 Search Algorithm 276 -- 15.4.3 Result Visualization and Organization 276 -- 15.5 Conclusions 277 -- 16 Conclusion 279 / Raphaël Troncy, Benoit Huet and Simon Schenk -- References 281 -- Author Index 301 -- Subject Index 303.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, the authors present the latest research results in the multimedia and semantic web communities, bridging the "Semantic Gap" This book explains, collects and reports on the latest research results that aim at narrowing the so-called multimedia "Semantic Gap": the large disparity between descriptions of multimedia content that can be computed automatically, and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media. Addressing the grand challenge posed by the "Semantic Gap" requires a multi-disciplinary approach (computer science, computer vision and signal processing, cognitive science, web science, etc.) and this is reflected in recent research in this area. In addition, the book targets an interdisciplinary community, and in particular the Multimedia and the Semantic Web communities. Finally, the authors provide both the fundamental knowledge and the latest state-of-the-art results from both communities with the goal of making the knowledge of one community available to the other. Key Features: * Presents state-of-the art research results in multimedia semantics: multimedia analysis, metadata standards and multimedia knowledge representation, semantic interaction with multimedia * Contains real industrial problems exemplified by user case scenarios * Offers an insight into various standardisation bodies including W3C, IPTC and ISO MPEG * Contains contributions from academic and industrial communities from Europe, USA and Asia * Includes an accompanying website containing user cases, datasets, and software mentioned in the book, as well as links to the K-Space NoE and the SMaRT society web sites (<a href="http://www.multimediasemantics.com/">http://www.multimediasemantics.com/</a>) This book will be a valuable reference for academic and industry researchers /practitioners in multimedia, computational intelligence and computer science fields. Graduate students, project leaders, and consultants will also find this book of interest.

The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development / / edited by Ezra Chitando, Beatrice Okyere-Manu, Sophia Chirongoma, Musa W. Dube

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910984589103321
• Autore: Chitando Ezra
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
• ISBN: 9783031695735; 9783031695728
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2024.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1116 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): Okyere-ManuBeatrice; ChirongomaSophia; DubeMusa W
• Disciplina: 199.6
• Soggetti: Environmental sciences - Social aspects; Sustainability; Human geography; Sex; Economic development; Philosophy, African; Environmental Social Sciences; Human Geography; Gender Studies; Development Studies; African Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1 : Introduction: Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development -- Chapter 2 Ubuntu Ethics as a Paradigm for Human Development in Africa -- Chapter 3 Ubuntu and a New Global Order based on Social Justice: Insights from Oliver Mtukudzi’s Music -- Chapter 4: Teaching Botho for Global Human Development -- Chapter 5 The Common Moral Position as Conversational: Re-interpreting the Hunhu/Ubuntu Moral Theory -- Chapter 6 : African Humanitas: Ubuntu ; and the Global Response to Climate Change -- Chapter 7 Mother Earth, Indigenous Spirituality and Ubuntu: Ideas for Meeting Contemporary Environmental Challenges -- Chapter 8 : Ghanaian Ubuntu and Malaysian Confucian Sustainable Plastic Waste Management and Leadership Styles in Afro-Asiatic Intercultural Perspective -- Chapter 9 : Solidarity Between Generations: An African Approach to Climate Change -- Chapter 10 : Ubuntu and Unsustainable Environmental Practices in Uganda: The Case of Sand Mining and Rice Farming -- Chapter 11: Integrating Ubuntu Language in the Paris Agreement -- Chapter 12: Ubuntu, women’s water rights and access to the blue economy in South Africa -- Chapter 13: Ubuntu, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Justice -- Chapter 14 : Equity and the Ubuntu Worldview: Navigating Shared Responsibilities and Fostering Solidarity in the Face of Inequality in Ireland and the United Kingdom -- Chapter 15 : Ubuntu and decolonisation -- Chapter 16: Ubuntu, Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals: Poverty as Impossibility -- Chapter 17 : Healthy ageing and Ubuntu in the Context of COVID- 19 and Future Pandemics in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 18 : Health for All: Harnessing Ubuntu Ethics for Promoting Competitive Pharmaceutical Production and Health Equity in Africa -- Chapter 19 : Foreign Aid in Africa: The case for an Ubuntu-inspired Relational ethics -- Chapter 20 : Ubuntu as a philosophy advancing Human Rights: The Humanistic Social Work thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 21 Utilising the Ubuntu Philosophy among Street Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview -- Chapter 22 Ubuntu and Sustainable Cities in Africa -- Chapter 23 Ubuntu philosophy & the Sustainable Development Goals: A theo-afro-analytical review -- Chapter 24 The Practice of Ubuntu in the United States and COVID-19: The Case of Zimbabwean Immigrants -- Chapter 25 Immigrants’ integration in the Global North: Ubuntu-informed social work -- Chapter 26 Fostering Harmony: Exploring Botho Ethical Principles as an Antidote to Xenophobia in Botswana -- Chapter 27 To Live or Leave: Rethinking Ubuntu and Migration in a Context of Uncertainty- The Zimbabwean Case -- Chapter 28 Ubuntu: An anti-racist and pro-equality African philosophy? -- Chapter 29 Racism dehumanises the racist: A Deep Dive into the African philosophy of Ubuntu and concepts of Transactional Analysis -- Chapter 30 Confronting Inequalities in Education: The Symbiosis of Ubuntu and the Nordic Model -- Chapter 31 Ubuntu, Race and Xenophobia -- Chapter 32 Ubuntu Virtues as a Coping Mechanism in the Face of Racism and Discrimination -- Chapter 33 Poverty, Ubuntu and Sustainable Development -- Chapter 34 Ubuntu, Inequality and Poverty in South Africa -- Chapter 35 Ubuntu as a possible virtuous weapon in the fight against poverty and inequalities -- Chapter 36 Ubuntu, Disability Inclusion and Sustainable Development: Breaking the Disability-Poverty Nexus in Africa -- Chapter 37 The Interface between Ubuntu and Patriotism in the Context of Inclusive Development in Africa -- Chapter 38 Ubuntu and Ethical Implications for Global Transformative Justice Movements -- Chapter 39 Ubuntu, Diversity and Inclusiveness: Afro-descendants in the United States -- Chapter 40 From Ubuntu to Du Boisian ‘Pan-African Ubuntu’ in the era of global inequalities -- Chapter 41 Ubuntu’s Potential to Inform Anti-Racism Practices and Policies in UK Higher Education -- Chapter 42 Ubuntu and Social Choice Theory: an ethical interrogation of group decision-making from an African perspective -- Chapter 43 Ubuntu and Gender Inequality: Chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukambo II’s Appropriation of Ubuntu in Promoting Gender Equality in the Soli Chiefdom in Zambia -- Chapter 44 De- ethnicisation, De-masculinisation and Re-Vitalization of the Ubuntu Paradigm for ; Sustainable African Development -- Chapter 45 Phallic Scripts of Ubuntu (mukadzi chaiye (a ‘real’ woman): Confronting the ‘De Jure powers’ that undermine progress in selected literary texts -- Chapter 46 The Ethics of Ubuntu and Gender Justice Among African Women Theologians -- Chapter 47 Ubuntu, Gender equality and Sustainable Development in Africa: An African Feminist Perspective -- Chapter 48 Ubuntu, Reconciliation and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa -- Chapter 49 Women’s Mushandirapamwe (Collectivism), Ubuntu and Sustainable Development in Contemporary Zimbabwe -- Chapter 50 Ubuntu and Gender inequality in Africa -- Chapter 51 Towards global gender justice: Interrogating Ubuntu for insights and practical application to women’s equality and Empowerment -- Chapter 52 Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development: Emerging Issues.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development interrogates the multiple inequalities that subsist in the world and explores how Ubuntu, emerging from Africa but being potentially applicable elsewhere, holds promise for mitigation and resolution. It highlights inequalities that relate to gender, climate change, the environment, race, migration, and the struggle against poverty. It reflects on how and the extent to which Ubuntu can be a strategic resource in pursuit of equality and justice. Ezra Chitando is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe and extraordinary professor at the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Beatrice Okyere-Manu is an associate professor at the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. An author of numerous articles and chapters combining community engagement with scholarly research. Her edited and co-edited works include Intersecting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (2018), African Values, Ethics, and Technology (2021), and, Development Ethics: An African Perspective (2023). Sophia Chirongoma is currently an independent researcher. She was a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa. She is an active member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Her research interests and publications focus on the interface between culture, ecology, religion, health, development, and gender justice. Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Prof of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) and a biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Her research interests include biblical and African literature, religion, gender, postcolonial, translation, HIV&AIDS, Botho/Ubuntu and Earth studies. She is the author and (co-)editor of numerous books. She is the current continental Coordinator of Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (2019-2024); former president of the Society Biblical Literature (2023) and Professor Extraordinaire in the Institute of Gender UNISA.