At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...
The visual surveillance task is to monitor the activity of objects in a scene. In far-field settings (i.e., wide outdoor areas), the majority of visible activities are objects movi...
Abstract. This paper analyses the semantics of natural language expressions that are associated with the intuitive notion of ‘place’. We note that the nature of such terms is h...
In this paper, an ontology-driven approach for the semantic analysis of video is proposed. This approach builds on an ontology infrastructure and in particular a multimedia ontolog...
The representation of physical space has traditionally focused on keyphrases such as “Computer Science Building” or “Physics Department” that help us in describing and nav...