Semantic Technologies

In recent years the Semantic Web has emerged as one of the most essential achievements for the future of the World Wide Web (WWW). Semantic Web technology extends the WWW but also enables to improve applications which are related to other fields such as communication, information, knowledge, media, and interaction technologies. Semantic Web provides not just new technologies and tools but also new paradigms and ways of thinking, to make information processing more efficient and more structured.

Our research is focussed on the devolpment and improvement of 'semantically supported multimedia retrieval and search technologies'.

Current News
Prior Events and Activities
Research Topics
Research Team
Former Team Members
Teaching
Supervised Master Theses
Projects and Partners
In the Media
Recent Publications

Research Topics

(1) Semantic Multimedia
(2) Linked Data Engineering and Applications
(3) Semantically enhanced Information Retrieval (Semantic Search)
(4) Knowledge Mining and Ontological Engineering
(5) Semantically enriched e-Learning Applications

Job Offers

Student-Coworkers for Semantic Technologies
- Job Description English (PDF)
- Job Description German (PDF)

Research Team

Prof. Dr. Harald Sack (Senior Researcher, H-1.39, Tel.: -527)
Henning Agt-Rickauer (PhD student, H-1.40, Tel.: -515)
Christian Hentschel, M.Sc. (PhD student, H-1.38, Tel.: -540)
Dipl.-Inf. Magnus Knuth (PhD student, H-1.40, Tel.: -547)
Tabea Tietz, B.A. (Scientific coworker, H-1.40, Tel.: -548)
Dipl.-Inf. Jörg Waitelonis (PhD student, H-1.38, Tel.: -537)
Henrik Jürges (student coworker)
Fritz Meiners (student coworker)
Martin Zabel (student coworker)

Former Team Members

Dr. Olaf Hartig (PostDoc)
Dinesh Reddy, M.Sc.
Tamara Bobic, M.Sc.
Dipl.-Inf. Katarina Birghan
Bernhard Quehl, M.Sc.
Dr. Nadine Steinmetz
Dr. Haojin Yang
Dipl.-Inf. Lina Wolf
Dipl.-Dokumentar Johannes Hercher
Joscha Jäger, M.A. (internship)
Johannes Osterhoff, M.A.
Dipl.-Inf. Zalan Kramer

Our group

**Left to Right:** Nadine Steinmetz, Johannes Osterhoff, Dr. Harald Sack, Jörg Waitelonis, Christian Hentschel, Bernhard Quehl

Publications

Smart Media Navigator: Visualizing Recommendations based on Linked Data

Tietz, Tabea; Waitelonis, Jörg; Jäger, Joscha; Sack, Harald in Proceedings of 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Industry Track Seite 48 - 51 . A. Polleres, A. Garcia, R. Benjamins , 2014 .

Weitere Informationen
Tags	Semantic_Web dbpedia interface_design its linked_data recommender_systems

Projects and Partners

AV-Portal Gottfried-Leibnitz-Universität Hannover, project with Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover (TIB)
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.
MEDIAGLOBE Project
The aim of MEDIAGLOBE is to open and interlink heterogenouse and currently isolated information sources in media archives and broadcasting corporation. Project partners: DEFA-spektrum, Medienbildungsgesellschaft Babelsberg mbH, Blue Order GmbH
THESEUS/CONTENTUS Project
The purpose of CONTENTUS is to develop basic technologies with which to access, archive and search for multi-media cultural assets and works of art.
YOVISTO
Yovisto is a video search engine specialized in academic content. Yovisto's search index is based on the combination of automated content based video analysis with user generated collaborative annotation (collaborative tagging, discussions, and comments). In difference to traditional video search engines, Yovisto enables pinpoint access within video data by providing fine-granular, time-dependent metadata.
Semantic Games
Games with a purpose that are dedicated to create and curate semantic content.

Current News

Invited Keynote: 21.06.2013: Harald Sack "Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Search", Symposium on Future Trends in Service-Oriented Computing, HPI, Potsdam.
Invited Talk: 18.03.2013: Harald Sack "Context-driven Semantic Multimedia Search", GoPortis Conference 2013 on non-textual Information - Strategy and Innovation Beyond Text, Hannover.
Invited Talk: 21.01.2013: Harald Sack "Strukturelle und semantische Analyse audiovisueller Medien - von der automatischen Schnitterkennung zur semantischen Suche", Gastvorlesung in den Medienwissenschaften, Universität Potsdam.
Invited Talk: 09.10.2012: Harald Sack "Semantics and Media Analysis" (6th_tele_task_symposium_2012) HPI-Potsdam.
Invited Talk: 25.09.2012: Harald Sack "Summarization and Relevance of Linked Data Facts" (LSWT2012) , Leipzig.
Invited Talk: 25.09.2012: Magnus Knuth "Linked Data Cleansing" (LSWT2012) , Leipzig.
Invited Talk: 25.09.2012: Nadine Steinmetz "How to Use Suggestion Services in Semantic Applications" (LSWT2012) , Leipzig.
Invited Talk: 20.09.2012: Harald Sack "Der Weg ist das Ziel – Explorative semantische Suche" (IVDW2012) Braunschweig.
20.09.2012: Jörg Waitelonis "Widen the Peepholes! Entity-based Auto-Suggestion as a rich and yet immediate Starting Point for Exploratory Search" (IVDW2012) Braunschweig.
Invited Talk: 29.05.2012: Magnus Knuth "Semantic Web Technologies" at TMF Forum Metadata and Linked Data, Berlin.
23.05.-25.05.2012: Bernhard Quehl "A Skeleton Based Binarization Approach for Video Text Recognition" at 13th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS2012), Dublin.
10.05.2012: Harald Sack "Medienanalyse", at the Mediaglobe concluding event, Berlin
10.05.2012: Jörg Waitelonis "Semantische Suche" at the Mediaglobe concluding event, Berlin
07.05.2012: "Neues Sucherlebnis beim Stöbern in Videoarchiven", HPI press release, Potsdam
10.05.2012: Meet us at the Mediaglobe concluding event in Berlin.
08.05.2012: Meet us at the Infomare satelite event "Lange Nacht der Suchmaschinen" in Berlin.
27.04.2012: Meet us at the CONTENTUS concluding event in Berlin.
18.04.2012: Christian Hentschel "High Performance Visual Video Analysis" at Future SOC Lab Day, Potsdam.
17.04.2012: Magnus Knuth "Colaboratively Patching Linked Data" at 2nd International Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (USEWOD2012), Workshop at WWW 2012, Lyon.
12.04.2012: Bernhard Quehl "Text Detection in Video Images Using Adaptive Edge Detection and Stroke Width Verification" at 19th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP2012).
23.03.2012: Johannes Hercher "Quo vadis nutzergenerierte Metadaten" at 2. DGI-Konferenz, Düsseldorf.
06.03.-10.03.2012: Meet us at the CeBIT Hannover, Hall 26 (H12).
13.02-15.02.2012: Meet us at the THESEUS congress in Berlin.
10.01.2012: Harald Sack Bildersuche im Netz, Interview on DRadio Wissen.
Invited Talk - 18. Jan 2012: Harald Sack, "Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Exploration", 63. Theorietag - Workshop über Algorithmen und Komplexität, Fachhochschule Brandenburg.

Prior Events and Activities

2011

Invited talk: 19.11.2011: Harald Sack, "Vom Suchen und Finden im Internet", for "Flüchtige Worte - Leben im digitalen Zeitalter" Tagung des Forum OST-WEST e.V. Potsdam, Seddiner See, Potsdam.
15.11.2011: Harald Sack, "Milliarden neuer Internetadressen - Verloren im Adressdschungel oder Raum für neue Geschäftsideen?", Keynote im Rahmen der Zukunftsdialoge, ständige Vertretung des Landes Brandenburgs beim Bund, Berlin.
Invited talk: 30.09.2011: Harald Sack, "Enabling Exploratory Video Search by Semantic Video Analysis" at Learning, Knowledge, Adaptation (LWA) 2011, Magdeburg.
19.09.2011: Harald Sack, "Suchen ist nicht immer gleich Suchen" at Corporate Semantic Web (CSW) Workshop, Xinnovations, Berlin.
Invited talk: 01.09.2011: Jörg Waitelonis, "Inhaltsbasierte Erschließung und Suche in multimedialen Objekten" at 35. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Klassifikation, Frankfurt.
31.08.2011: Nadine Ludwig, "Named Entity Recognition for User-Generated Tags" at Text-based Information Retrieval (TIR) Workshop at DEXA 2011, Toulouse.
Invited talk: 20.06.2011: Harald Sack, "Semantic Search for audiovisual media" at THESEUS Thementag, Effiziente Erschließung digitaler Medien, Berlin.
16.06.2011: Harald Sack, Panel Discussion at 10th Innovative Internet Community Systems (I2CS 2011), Berlin: "Blessing or Curse for Online Communities? The Influence of Social Media, Mobile Internet and Clouds on Communities"
09.06.2011: Harald Sack / Jörg Waitelonis, "Projekt Mediaglobe im Theseus Forschungsprogram / Yovisto Akademische Videosuche", Workshop Inhaltsbasierte Erschließung und Suche in multimedialen Objekten, 100. Bibliothekartag 2011, Berlin.
Invited talk: 25.05.2011: Harald Sack, "Wie Sie schon immer finden wollten, was Sie noch nie gesucht haben", Leibniz Kolleg Potsdam, Potsdamer Naturwissenschaftliche Vorträge, Universitätscampus Golm, Potsdam.
Invited talk: 05.05.2011: Harald Sack, "Semantic Media Explorer - Neue Wege der Suche in Medienarchiven", Leipziger Semantic Web Tag 2011, Leipziger Mediencampus, 5. Mai 2011, Leipzig.
Invited talk: 22.03.2011: Johannes Hercher, "Semantische Suche im audiovisuellen Kulturerbe – Das Projekt mediaglobe", 2. I-Science Tage, March 22th, 2011, University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam.
01.-05. Mar. 2011: We present our research at CEBIT Hannover, Hall 9 (C15).
VISSW 2011, Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web, in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2011), Palo Alto, CA, USA, 13 Feb 2011.
Invited talk: 7. Feb. 2011: Harald Sack, "Semantik - Die nächste Herausforderungen für Anwendungen in der IT", HPI Academy, Feburary 7th, 2011, Hasso Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, Potsdam.
Invited talk: 7. Feb. 2011: Harald Sack, "Semantische Multimediasuche - CONTENTUS, MEDIAGLOBE und yovisto", Berlin Semantic Meetup, Feburary 6th, 2011, Konrad Zuse Zentrum für Informationstechnik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin.

2010

Invited talk: 2. Dec. 2010: Harald Sack, "Explorative und semantische Suche mit Mediaglobe", IRT-Symposium "Vom Suchen zum Finden - in multimedialen Archiven der nächsten Generation", December 1-2, 2010, Institut für Rundfunktechnik, München.
5th Int. Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2010), December 1-3, 2010, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Invited talk: 13. Oct. 2010: Harald Sack, "Archivierung, Analyse, Interaktion und Remix von wissenschaftlichen Online-Vorträgen", Wissenschaft auf neuer Bühne, 2. Meilensteintagung des Forschungsverbundes "Interactive Science - Interaktive Wissenschaftskommunikation über digitale Medien, Schloss Rauischgolzhausen, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.
4th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010), September 22-24, 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Invited Talk: Harald Sack, "Semantic Search Technologies for Video Archives", Sino-German Forum on 'Digital University and Higher Education', in conjunction with 5th tele-TASK Symposium, Sept. 15-17, 2010, Bejing, China.
3rd KRDB school on 'Trends in the Web of Data' (KRDBs-2010), Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, 17-18 September 2010
9th European Workshop on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services (NKOS 2010), Sep 9-10, 2010, at 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries 2010 (ECDL 2010), Glasgow, Scottland
Invited talk: 08. Sept. 2010: Harald Sack, "Semantic Web - Vom WWW zum Web of Data", Workshop 'Future Internet: Web 3.0 - Social, Service, Semantic Web' im Rahmen des 7. Fernausbildungskongresses 2010 der Bundeswehr, 7.-9. Sept. 2010, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg
Semantic Search Workshop (SemSearch10) at the 19th Int. World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), 26-30 April 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2010
Invited Talk: 15. Juni 2010: Harald Sack: "Linked Open Data Universe", Eröffnung FutureSOC-Lab, 5th Annual Symposium on Future Trends in Service-Oriented Computing, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik, Potsdam.
Invited Talk: 26. Feb. 2010:Harald Sack: "Der Weg ist das Ziel - Explorative Videosuche jenseits des gängigen Suchparadigmas", 4. tele-TASK Symposium, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik, Potsdam.

2009

International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009), December 14-16, 2009, San Diego
Invited Talk: 07. Dez. 2009: Harald Sack, "Das Semantic Web als kulturelles Phänomen", Impuls-Referat im Seminar "Web-Tendenzen als kulturelles Phänomen" an der FH-Potsdam, 07. Oktober 2009.
International Conference on Semantic Systems, I-SEMANTICS '09, 02.-04. September, Graz, Austia
Invited Talk: 07. Okt. 2009: Harald Sack, "Semantische Co-Annotation und Videosuche mit YOVISTO", Multimedia-Forum der DFN-Betriebstagung, 06./07. Oktober 2009, Johannesstift Berlin-Spandau.
Invited Talk: 09. Sep. 2009: Harald Sack, "Wie Sie schon immer finden wollten, was Sie noch nie gesucht haben - Paradigmenwechsel in der (Web)Suche", Keynote, 13. Verbundkonferenz des GBV, 9.-10.09.2009, Hamburg.
Summer School on Multimedia Semantics 2009, 23.-28. August, Koblenz, Germany
Open Video Conference, Metadata-Round-Table, 19.-21. June 2009, New York City

Teaching

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2014 (SS)

Seminar (Master): Semantic Multimedia (Blog)
Seminar (Master): Principles of Linked Data Publishing (Blog)

2013/14 (WS)

Lecture (Master): Semantic Web Technologien (Blog)

2013 (SS)

Seminar (Master): Semantic Multimedia (Blog)
Seminar (Bachelor): Multimedia Analyse Technologien (Blog)
Schülerkolleg (für Schüler der 8. bis 10. Klasse): Internetsuche und Google PageRank - Wie wird was durch wen gefunden?
- Woche 1 - 09.04.2013: Die Geschichte der Web-Suchmaschinen (pdf)
- Woche 2 - 23.04.2013: Term- und Dokumentenranking (pdf)
- Woche 3 - 07.05.2013: Google Page Rank (pdf)
- Woche 4 - 21.05.2013: Personalisierung und Web Crawling (pdf)
- Woche 5 - 04.06.2013: Semantische Suche

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Supervised Master Theses

Gerald Töpper: Erweiterung der DBpedia Ontologie und des Extraction Frameworks zur Sicherung der Datenqualität. (finished April 2012)
Peter Retzlaff: Visualisierung von Bag-of-Visual-Words-Vektoren für die Visual Concept Detection (finished March 2014)
Sebastian Stange: Evaluierung einer semantischen Videosuche und Ermittlung geeigneter Videoanalysetechniken (finished March 2014)
Michael Wolowyk: Semantic Recommender Systems (preliminary title) (in progress)

Open Master Theses

Please find a list of possible topics for Master Theses. Contact us, if you are interested in one of these topics or have own suggestions.

Video Analysis:
- OCR Spellcorrection
- Tag Relevance Estimation in Photo Communities
- Learning Local Image Descriptors
Linked Data and Semantic Web:
- Named Entity Evolution
- Authority File Mapping
- A Mereology for Media Fragments