Web and Multimedia Systems

Cluster

Computer Vision and Multimedia Systems

Description

The group's research themes can be summarised as: multimedia systems; systems for Web Intelligence. The goal for the first field is studying multimedia communications from a semiotic point of view, with an in-depth study as to the formulation of conceptual models (ontologies); the semantics of media digital objects; the annotation of still images and videos; the design of sound digital objects (sound design); the design and implementation of narrative hypertexts for applications in the field of cultural heritage. In the field of Web Intelligence, the research activity is about the analysis of Web 2.0 information sources and information extraction/classification; the analysis of the ‘sentiment’, with the application purpose of analysing market trends, social networks within the health environment, and more generally Web 2.0 social media.

Research subjects

Conceptual modelling and ontologies for the Semantic Web
Semiotics and multimedia
Web intelligence

ERC panels

PE6_10 Web and information systems, data management systems, information retrieval and digital libraries, data fusion
PE6_7 Artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, natural language processing