Annotations of multimedia documents typically have been pursued in two different directions. Either previous approaches have
focused on low level descriptors, such as dominant color, or they have focused on the content dimension and corresponding annotations, such as person or vehicle. In this paper, we present a software environment to bridge between the two directions. M-OntoMat-Annotizer allows for linking low level MPEG-7 visual descriptions to conventional Semantic Web ontologies and annotations. We use M-OntoMat-Annotizer in order to construct ontologies that include prototypical instances of high-level domain concepts together with a formal
specification of corresponding visual descriptors. Thus, we formalize the interrelationship of high- and low-level multimedia
concept descriptions allowing for new kinds of multimedia content analysis, reasoning and retrieval.
This research was partially supported by the European Commission under contract FP6-001765 aceMedia. The expressed content
is the view of the authors but not necessarily the view of the aceMedia project as a whole.