Semantic Web, Sematic Information/Multimedia Retrieval, Video Search Engines, MPEG-7, Web-2.0, Collaborative Annotation, Text/Image-Processing

• Semantic Web Research

SS 2010

• Seminar: Multimedia-Analyse (Bachelor)
• Seminar: Semantic Multimedia (Master)

WS2010/11

• Semantic Web Technologien (lecture & lab course, Master, 4 SWS, lecture blog)

• Large Scale Processing for Semantic Web Technologies (seminar, Master, 4 SWS)

SS2009

• Seminar: Multimedia-Analyse (Bachelor)
• Seminar: Semantic Multimedia (Master)

WS09/10

• Lecture: Semantic Web (Übung)
• Seminar: LOD Application Engineering

# Semantic Media Explorer (SEMEX) The Semantic Media Explorer is a demonstrator that combines the latest media analysis processes to provides optimal access to video content.

# Yovisto - Academic Video Search formerly known as BMBF/ESF funded EXIST-SEED Project (09/2006 - 09/2007):
(OSOTIS-Academic Video Search) Automated Annotation and Search in Multimedia Presentations FKZ: 03ESFTH045

# MEDIAGLOBE - the digital archive is part of the THESEUS research program initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology (BMWi). MEDIAGLOBE deals with digitization, analysis, and semantic retrieval of historical, documentary audiovisual content.

# THESEUS - Use Case CONTENTUS - Sicherung Kulturerbe

# REPLAY - The ETH Multimedia Portal System  REPLAY is to change the way to produce, handle, archive, and distribute audiovisual recordings at ETH-Zürich

# 100. Deutscher Bibliothekartag, 07. - 10. Juni 2011 in Berlin, 'Bibliotheken für die Zukunft, Zukunft für die Bibliotheken'

# 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC),  May 20 -June 2 2011, Heraklion, Greece

# IUI 2011: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Paolo Alto, Februar 13-16, 2011

 # OVC 2010: Open Video Conference, NYC, October 1-4, 2010

# ICSC 2010: Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, September 22-24, 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

# IBC Conference and Exibition in Amsterdam, September 09.-14.

# 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), May 30th - June 03th, Heraklion, Greece

# International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010),  April 26-30, Raleigh, NC, USA

# International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009), December 14-16, 2009, San Diego

# International Conference on Semantic Systems, I-SEMANTICS '09, 02.-04. September, Graz, Austia
# Summer School on Multimedia Semantics 2009, 23.-28. August, Koblenz, Germany
# Open Video Conference, 19.-21. June 2009, New York City
# German IPv6 Summit 2009 in Potsdam, 14. - 15. Mai 2008 am Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam
# EduCamp 2009, 17. - 19. April 2008 an der Technischen Universität Ilmenau
# Innovationsforum CINEARCHIV digital, 25. März 2009, Babelsberg
# Cebit 2009, 04.-08. March 2009, Hannover
# 1st Media Management and Distribution Workshop, 29.-30. January 2009, Zurich
# The 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008), 26.-30. October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany
# Opencast Meeting - Deep Dive, 15.-16. Oktober 2008, UC Berkeley.
# EduCamp 2008 2 , 10.-12. Oktober 2008, Berlin, Germany.
# Podcast Workshop - Friedrich Schiller Universität, 23.-24. September 2008, Jena, Germany.
# Hadoop Get together @ Berlin, 08 September 2008, Berlin, Germany.
# PodcastUniversity:zwei, Tagung, 03-04 September 2008, Universität Osnabrück, Germany.
# FrOScon - Freie Software und Open Source Konferenz, Sankt Augustin 23.- 24.08.2008
# ICSOFT2008 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, 5. - 8. July 2008 in Porto, Portugal
# eLearning Baltics (eLBa) 2008, 19. - 19. Juni 2008 in Rostock
# Bibcamp 2008, 16. - 17. Mai 2008 in Potsdam/Berlin
# German IPv6 Summit 2008 in Potsdam, 7. - 8. Mai 2008 am Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam
# EduCamp 2008, 18. - 20. April 2008 an der Technischen Universität in Ilmenau (Thüringen)
# ExpertInnenworkshop "Social Tagging in der Wissensorganisation - Perspektiven und Potenziale", 21./22. Februar 2008 am Institut für Wissensmedien in Tübingen
# 8th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning , 16th-19th December, 2007, Birmingham, UK
# Workshop lecture recording - lecture on demand 2007, 10. Oktober 2007, Universität Jena, Germany.
# ACM Multimedia 2007, 24-29 September 2007, Universität Augsburg, Germany.
# DeLFI 2007, 17-20 September 2007, Universität Siegen, Germany.
# Podcast-University, Tagung, 05-09 September 2007, Universität Osnabrück, Germany.
# Utrecht Summerschool 2007 on Multimedia Retrieval (USCS) 20-24 August 2007

# Jan Nandzik, Berenike Litz, Aenne Löhden, Andreas Heß, Iuliu Konya, Doris Baum, André Bergholz, Dirk Schönfuß, Christian Fey, Johannes Osterhoff, Jörg Waitelonis, Harald Sack, Ralf Köhler, and Patrick Ndjiki-Nya:
 CONTENTUS – Technologies for Next Generation Multimedia Libraries,
AIEMPro ’10 Special Issue, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2011

# J. Osterhoff, J. Waitelonis, J. Jäger,  H. Sack: 
Sneak Preview? Instantly Know What To Expect In Faceted Browsing, in Proc. of Workshop Interaktion und Visualisierung im Daten-Web (IVDW 2011), 2011

# Jörg Waitelonis, Nadine Ludwig, Magnus Knuth, Harald Sack:
Whoknows? - Evaluating Linked Data Heuristics with a Quiz that cleans up DBpedia. International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE), Emerald Group, Vol. 8, 2011 (3). (ISSN: 1741-5659) [local copy (PDF) | citation (BibTex)]

# N. Ludwig, J. Waitelonis, M. Knuth, H. Sack: 
WhoKnows? - Evaluating Linked Data Heuristics with a Quiz that Cleans Up DBpedia. In Proc. of the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Poster-Session, Springer LNCS 6643, 2011. (ISBN 978-3-642-21033-4) [local copy (PDF) | citation (BibTex)]

# J. Waitelonis, H. Sack: 
Towards exploratory video search using linked data,
 in Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-28, Springer Netherlands, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-011-0733-1.

# J. Waitelonis, J. P. Osterhoff, H. Sack:
More than the Sum of its Parts: CONTENTUS - A Semantic Multimodal Search User Interface, Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW2011), Co-located with ACM IUI 2011, Feb 13, 2011, Palo Alto, US.

# J. Waitelonis, M. Knuth, L. Wolf, J. Hercher, H. Sack:
The Path is the Destination - Enabling a New Search Paradigm with Linked Data, in Proc. of Linked Data in the Future Internet at the Future Internet Assembly, Ghent 16/17 Dec 2010,CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.

# J. Waitelonis, N. Ludwig, H. Sack:
'Use What You Have -- Yovisto Video Search Engine Takes a Semantic Turn', in Proc. of 5th Int. Conf. on Semantic and Digital Media (SAMT 2010), December 1-3, 2010, DFKI Saarbrücken.

# J. Waitelonis, H. Sack:
Exploratory Video Search with yovisto, 4th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010), September 22-24, 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 

# J. Waitelonis, H. Sack, Z. Kramer, J. Hercher:
Semantically Enabled Exploratory Video Search, in Proc. of Semantic Search Workshop (SemSearch10) at the 19th Int. World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), 26-30 April 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2010.

 # J. Waitelonis, H. Sack: 
Towards Exploratory Video Search by Using Linked Data, in Proc. of 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications (DSMSA2009), in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009), December 14-16, 2009, San Diego, California, USA, 2009, pp. 540-545 (ISBN 978-0-7695-3890-7).

# J. Waitelonis, H. Sack: 
Augmenting Video Search with Linked Open Data, in Proc. of International Conference on Semantic Systems 2009 (i-semantics 2009), September, 2-4, 2009, Graz, Journal of Universal Computer Science, Verlag der TU Graz, Austria, 2009 (ISBN 978-3-85125-060-2).

# J. Waitelonis:
 Automated and Collaborative Annotation of Digital Video to Enable Semantic and Personalized Search.
 in: Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium on Software and Data Technologies, Porto, Portugal, July 5-8, 2008. INSTICC Press 2008, ISBN 978-989-8111-54-8
 

# G. Matthias,  J. Waitelonis, H. Sack:
 Quality-Improvement of University Seminars through Enhanced Podcasts on yovisto.com, in S. Hambach, A. Martens, and B. Urban (eds.) Proc. of E-Learning Baltics (eLBa 2008), June 17-19, Rostock, Germany, 2008, pp. 189-200, (ISBN 978-3-8167-7781-6).

 # J. Waitelonis, H. Sack, Ch. Meinel:
Zeitbezogene kollaborative Annotation zur Verbesserung der inhaltsbasierten Videosuche,
in: Birgit Gaiser and Thorsten Hampel and Stefanie Panke (eds.): Good Tags and Bad Tags - Workshop „Social Tagging in der Wissensorganisation“, Waxmann, 2008, pp. 107-117, (ISBN 978-3-8309-2039-7).
 
 # S. Repp , J. Waitelonis, H. Sack, Ch. Meinel:
Segmentation and Annotation of Audiovisual Recordings based on Automated Speech Recognition ,
in Proc. of 8th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Data Eng. and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2007), Springer LNCS 4881, Birmingham, UK, December 2007. pp. 620 - 629, ISBN: 978-3-540-77225-5. 
 
 # H. Sack, J. Waitelonis:
 OSOTIS - kollaborative, inhaltsbasierte Video-Suche,
in Proc. of 5. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik, DeLFI 2007, Siegen, Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-111, Köllen, Bonn, 2007, pp. 281--292.
 
 # H. Sack, J. Waitelonis:
Integrating Social Tagging and Document Annotation for Content-Based Search in Multimedia Data,
in Proc. of the 1st Semantic Authoring and Annotation Workshop (SAAW2006), Athens (GA), USA, 2006.
 
 # H. Sack, J. Waitelonis:
Automated Annotations of Synchronized Multimedia Presentations,
in Proceedings of Mastering the Gap : From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation (MTG06 / ESWC2006), Budva, Montenegro, June 12, 2006.