ITEE Ph.D confirmation seminar: Suzanne Little, 10.00AM, Wed 11 Jun 2003

Multimedia and the Semantic Web

Speaker: Suzanne Little, ITEE

When: 10.00AM, Wednesday 11 Jun 2003

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)

ITEE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~seminar

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