1. News from the front:
WeKnowIt
Emerging, Collective
Intelligence for personal, organisational and social use
Ansgar Scherp
University of Koblenz-Landau
Heraklion, 2nd June 2010
co-funded by the European Union

2. Massive Web 2.0 WeKnowIt user-contributed Non-Web 2.0 training data
(publicly available)
Locations Topics Social connections
Personal Get recommendations Tag normalization
Emergency alert service
Tag processing Social
Visual analysis Media Community analysis tool
Media Text classification
Text annotation
Events
Hybrid image clustering
POI recommendation Mass
Speech search
Local tag community detector Media
Mass POI clustering Semantic photo query
Search place POI Entities
Named entity detection Log merger
Mass Organisational
Organisational csxPOIs Entity facet extraction - ranking Semaplorer(++)
Representation Access
Personal CURIO Storage Account Manager
Personal
VERACITY Login
Media Speech Indexing
Organisational Event model F Social Community administration platform
Integration Data Storage
Integration Common data model Organisational Group Management
GUI ER CSG
Manage Item Comment Mobile app Travel preparation
System Integration
Personal Tag Users messaging Desktop proto Use Mobile guidance
Mass
Post ER tool cases Post-travel logging
Search Knowledge Base Lexical Spam Detector
Technologies Overview
co-funded by the European Union

3. Available Datasets
• 1,117,059 travel & 549 emergency response FlickR photos
• Geo-tagged
• Recently uploaded
• Downloaded both photos and metadata
• Filtered: Kept only outdoor photos (streets, buildings ...)
co-funded by the European Union

4. Building on top of the results
• VIRaL – Visual retrieval and localisation
• Expansion of datasets
• Event detection
• Recommendation services
• Track evolution of specific topics
• Facet navigation through ontology-based classification
• Community detection
• Content indexing and tag recommendation
• Image similarities to weight networks of photographers
• Semantic POIs  Linked Data (DBpedia)
• Event-model-F
• Application in art and cultural heritage
• Reasoning
• WKI Data store to enable SPARQL querying
co-funded by the European Union

5. Contacts
• Dr. Yiannis Kompatsiaris
• Informatics and Telematics Institute, Multimedia Knowledge Lab
• Tel +30-2311-257-774
• Fax +30-2310-474-128
• E-mail ikom@iti.gr
• 6th Km Charilaou-Thermi road, GR57001 Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece
• Consortium
• CERTH-ITI, Greece • Software Mind, Poland
• Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany • Sheffield City Council, UK
• Univ. of Sheffield, UK • Brno Univ. of Technology,
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Czech Republic
Germany • Telefonica I+D, Spain
• Vodafone, Greece • Yahoo! Iberia, Spain
co-funded by the European Union