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BOEMIE 2006

Workshop on

Ontology Evolution and
 Multimedia Information Extraction

Friday, October 6, 2006 Ÿ Podebrady, Czech Republic Ÿ Part of EKAW 2006

Introduction

08.45 – 09.00    Welcome and Introduction to Workshop

                        Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

09.00 – 09.15    Introduction to BOEMIE project

                        George Paliouras, NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Multimedia Information Extraction

09.15 – 09.40    Semantics Extraction from Multimedia: The BOEMIE approach

                        Stavros Perantonis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece

09.40 – 10.05    The MediaMill Semantic Video Search Engine

                        Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

10.05 – 10.30    Towards a Large-Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia: First Results and Evaluations

                        Alex Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, US

10.30 – 11.15  Coffee Break and Poster Session I

Multimedia Ontologies

11.15 – 11.40    Multimedia Ontologies: An Overview

                        Vassilis Tzouvaras, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

11.40 – 12.05    Knowledge for Multimedia Use and Understanding

                        Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

12.05 – 12.30    Creation of a Large-Scale Image Ontology Using Web Images

                        Gregory Grefenstette, CEA, France

12.30 – 14.00  Lunch break

Multimedia and Reasoning

14.00 – 14.25    Reasoning for Scene Interpretation

                        Ralf Moller, Hamburg University of Technology

14.25 – 14.50    Multi Document Reasoning for Video Indexing

                        Jan Kuper, University of Twente, The Netherlands

14.50 – 15.15    Ontology Based Object Learning and Recognition

                        Monique Thonnat, INRIA, France

15.15 – 16.00  Coffee Break and Poster Session II

Ontology Learning and Evolution

16.00 – 16.25    Ontology Evolution: The BOEMIE Approach

                        Silvana Castano, University of Milano, Italy

16.25 – 16.50    Ontology Evolution and Change Management for Ontology Learning

                        Philipp Cimiano, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

16.50 – 17.15    Ontology Learning: Multilingual and Multimedia Aspects

                        Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany

17.15 – 18.00  Panel Discussion and Conclusions

                        Chair: Constantine Spyropoulos, NCSR Demokritos, Greece