Multimedia and the Semantic Web
Speaker: Suzanne Little, ITEE
When: 2003-06-11 10:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Jane Hunter, Brian Lovell
Abstract:Ever increasing amounts of multimedia data are being produced in
domains such as cultural, bioinformatics and microtechnology,
leading to information overload as human users attempt to comprehend
the vast amounts of knowledge now contained in distributed
multimedia collections. Currently, human analysis, interpretation
and visualisation of the knowledge encapsulated by the multimedia
objects is rapidly becoming impossible as the quantity of data grows
beyond human capacity. By utilising the framework offered by the
emerging technologies of the semantic web and applying them to
multimedia data, this project aims to assist in the creation of
rich, complete, consistent and standardised metadata for multimedia
objects and using this well-defined data, provide interfaces to
distributed multimedia collections to support assimilation of
knowledge over organisations and domains. The key is to integrate
the requirements of multimedia with the core technologies of the
semantic web (e.g. RDF, OWL ontologies) and semantic inferencing and
draw together the individual yet related technologies, exploiting
the strength of computer management of data to support human
understanding and intuitive analysis.
This talk introduces the concept of the Semantic Web and some of the
core technologies involved in it; discusses the requirements of
multimedia and examines some applications of semantic web
technologies to support integration across domains/organizations and
enable semantic web type applications which extract/infer knowledge
and solve complex problems through sharing and combining data and
services.
Biography:Suzanne Little is a PhD student with the ITEE Department at the
University of Queensland in association with the Distributed Systems
Technology Centre, supervised by Dr Jane Hunter. She received a
Bachelor of Information Technology with class I honours from the
University of Queensland in 2000 and began work at DSTC with a
student vacation project in December of that year before becoming a
researcher with the MAENAD (Multimedia Across Enterprise, Networks
And Domains) group. In 2002 she commenced a PhD in the area of
multimedia semantics. Her research interests include multimedia
semantic relationships (definition and discovery), metadata
standards and interoperability, semantic web technologies and hci.
Type: Ph.D confirmation
Contact:Jane Hunter, Brian Lovell, seminar host (jane@dstc.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)