A Flexible Approach for Managing Digital Images on the Semantic Web

Abstract

As the volume of digital images available on the Web continues to increase, there is a clear need for more advanced techniques for their effective retrieval and management. Recently, there has been an interest in applying Semantic Web technologies to represent the high level content of digital images in a machine processable format. While progress has been made, through a representative use case, we provide motivation for further work in developing more domain independent techniques for both annotating and managing images on the Web. Following this, we present an approach for publishing (OWL) annotations of image content to the Semantic Web, through the loose coupling of an annotation environment with a Semantic Web portal. Additionally, we present an implementation of the approach and describe a hypothetical use case that resulted in a proof-of-concept designed in collaboration with NASA.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA448049

Entities

People

  • Andrew Schain
  • Bijan Parsia
  • Christian Halaschek-wiener
  • James Hendler
  • Jennifer Golbeck
  • Michael Grove

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

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  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Computer Vision
  • Counterterrorism
  • Digital Images
  • Digital Media
  • Environment
  • Image Processing
  • Image Segmentation
  • Images
  • Media
  • Metadata
  • Ontologies
  • Standards
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Systems Analysis and Design