First Workshop on the Semantics of Visual Objects
A WWW 2010 Workshop, April 27th (morning), 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA
Topics and Content
Visual representations (charts, graphs, diagrams) of heterogeneous data
(numeric trends, social networks, molecular structures) play an
important role in human communication. Yet most of the visual objects
(VOs) published on the World Web Web are only available as
unstructured raster images, thus depriving us of the ability to
explore and query their contents. This workshop aims to expose raw
data contained within VOs (maintaining the visual information) using
Semantic Web technologies so as to facilitate interoperability, data
sharing, granular annotation, common visual rendering and ultimately,
question answering and knowledge discovery.
Topics of interest:
- Automatic and manual representation of visual of objects with RDF and OWL
- Information extraction and integration
- Rich media and granularity of data representation
- Natural-language-based semantics for visual scenes
- Spatial and temporal logics for reasoning with VOs
- Querying visual objects
- Domain-specific query languages for VO knowledgebases
- Complexity of reasoning with visual objects
- Architectures for storing and querying over large numbers of VOs
- VO-based web services and service oriented computing
- Ontologies and terminologies of VOS
- Templating and dynamic interfaces for searching VOs
- Evaluation methodologies for VO annotation and search
Workshop Format and Attendance:
This will be a half day workshop, including two highlight presentations,
technical talks and demonstrations on Semantic Web enabled visual objects.
Workshop Chair
Program Committee
- Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick
- Colin Batchelor, Royal Society of Chemistry
- Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine
- Kei Cheung, Yale University
- Tim Clark, Massachussetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
- Melanie Courtot, Terry Fox Laboratories
- Jim Davies, Carleton University
- Max Egenhofer, University of Main
- Stephanie Elzer, Millersville University
- John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey
- Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile
- Simon Harper, Manchester University
- Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System
- Phillip Lord, Newcastle University
- John Madden, Duke University
- James Malone, EBI
- M. Scott Marshall, University of Amsterdam
- Bjoern Peters, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
- Elgar Pichler
- Marco Roos, Leiden University Medical Centre
- Nigam Shah, Stanford University
- Robert Stevens, University of Manchester
Important Dates
- Deadline for long and short papers: February 15, 2010
- Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2010
- Camera-ready: April 1, 2010
- Workshop: April 27 (morning), 2010
(All times Midnight Hawaii Standard Time)
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance
and technical rigor, experience reports, and show case / use case demonstrations
of effective, practical technologies or applications in applying semantic
technologies to visual objects.
Papers must be in English and may be submitted at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semvo2010 as:
- Full Papers (10 pages)
- Short Papers (4 pages)
- Position Statements (2 pages)
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions will be peer-reviewed
by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness,
and clarity of exposition.
Publication details will be posted to the workshop web site,
http://semanticscience.org/workshop/semvo2010/, as they become available.