WORKSHOP
on BIG DATA and ONTOLOGY
Organized by the Electrical Engineering
Department, IIT Delhi
Under the aegis of TEQIP-II, IIT Delhi
Date: 19th
September
Time: 10:00 am to 5:45 pm
venue: Seminar Hall, IIT
Delhi
Registration:
click here
Scope:
Recent
advances in sensor, storage and networking technologies have made huge volumes
of data available for exploration. The data ranges from text data as such in
web-pages, e-mails; time-series data, say, generated by weather and seismic stations around the globe; multimedia
data such as feeds from surveillance cameras
spread across a city; and social documentaries like the micro-blogs. Data scientists have been baffled with
the volume of data so generated and
have appreciated that the traditional approaches can not scale up. They have by
and large relied on machine learning techniques to analyse and interpret such large volume of data with
reasonable success. At this juncture, we
ask if traditional human knowledge has any role
to play in interpreting such huge volume of multimodal, distributed and heterogeneous data? Can the collective expert
knowledge, formally encoded in the form
of ontology, help us to correlate the observed patterns on different channels and interpret them in domain context to
discover their deep semantics or the root causes
for any observed turbulences?
This workshop will attempt to answer these questions
through invited talks and discussions. It is planned as a point of convergence
for academics and industry experts with
diverse viewpoints on the subject. It
will focus on different aspects of ontology engineering, in particular,
applications to Big Data problems. It will examine foundational principles of
ontology, different aspects of ontology construction, representation and
reasoning processes. Discussions will span over multiple domains, for example
biosciences, multimedia, security, digital heritage and linguistics. The
workshop will have lectures and a panel discussion.
Workshop
SCHEDULE:
9:30 am – 10:00 am Workshop
Registration
10:00 am – 10:05 am Welcome
Address by Dr. Brejesh Lall,
Workshop Chair
10:05 am – 12:45 pm Session I-“Big Data: Ontological
Perspective”, chaired by Prof H. M.
Gupta, IITD
10:05 am – 10:50 am Invited Talk by Prof.
Santanu Chaudhury, IIT Delhi
10:50 am – 11:40 am Invited Talk by Prof.
Navjyoti Singh, IIIT Hyderabad
11:40 am – 11:55 am Tea break
11:55 am – 12:45 pm Invited talk by Prof.
Vijay Chandru, Strand Life Sciences
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch
break
1:45 pm – 4:15 pm Session II:
“Ontology & Its Applications”, chaired by
Prof. K.K. Biswas, IITD
1:45 pm – 2:35 pm Invited Talk by Prof.
Amitabha Mukherjee, IIT Kanpur
2:35 pm – 3:25 pm Invited Talk by Prof. Aditya
Bagchi, ISI Kolkata
3:25 pm
– 3:50 pm Invited Talk by Dr. Arijit
Mukherjee, TCS
3:50 pm – 4:15 pm Invited Talk by Dr.
Anupama Mallik, IIT Delhi
Panel Discussion
4:15
pm – 5:15 pm Panel
Discussion on "Ontology for
Multimedia Big Data"
Chaired BY: Prof. Narendra Ahuja, Director ITRA, Media Lab Asia
Panelists : Prof. Vjiay Chandru, Strand LS, Prof. K.K.Biswas, IIT Delhi, Dr. Usha Munshi, IIPA, Dr. hiranmay
ghosh, TCS
Book launch
5:15
pm – 5:45 pm Book Launch by Prof.
narendra Ahuja
Title:
“Multimedia ONTOLOGY: Representation and Applications”
AUTHORS: Prof. Santanu Chaudhury, Dr. Anupama
Mallik, Dr. Hiranmay
Ghosh
5:45 pm onwards High Tea
CRC Press Book Exhibition
9:30 am – 6:00 pm Book
Exhibition by CRC Press Taylor and
Francis Group
VENUE: Foyer outside Seminar
hall, IIT Delhi.
Invited
Speakers
Prof. Navjyoti Singh,
IIIT Hyderabad
Prof. Vjiay Chandru,
Strand LS, Bangalore
Prof. Amitabha Mukherjee,
IIT Kanpur
Prof. Aditya Bagchi, ISI
Kolkata
Prof. Santanu Chaudhury, IIT Delhi
Dr. Arijit
Mukherjee, TCS, Kolkata
Dr. Anupama Mallik, IIT Delhi
Panel
Discussion
TOPIC: Ontology
for multimedia big data analysis
Multimedia data assumes a significant
proportion on the web, the social media and professional collections.
Interpretation of multimedia data is a complex task and has been a challenge to
the scientists. There is a big gap between the audio-visual representations and
their connotations. Surprisingly enough, human mind can cope up with the
“semantic gap” quite intuitively. This leads to the question that has human
sensory experience accumulated over the generations have a role to play in
contextually interpreting the multimedia artifacts, and if so, what is the
characteristics of such knowledge? Is it inherently different from the symbolic
form of knowledge that philosophers, information scientists and technologists
deal with?
In this panel, we have invited panelists
from different professions to address this issue from their respective
perspectives.
PANELISTS:
Prof. Narendra Ahuja,
Director ITRA
Prof. Vjiay Chandru,
Strand LS, Bangalore
Book
launch by Prof. Narendra Ahuja
Book TITLE: Multimedia Ontology: Representation and
Applications
AUTHORS: Prof. Santanu Chaudhury, Dr. Anupama
Mallik, Dr. Hiranmay Ghosh
The result of more
than 15 years of collective research, Multimedia Ontology:
Representation and Applications provides a theoretical foundation for
understanding the nature of media data and the principles involved in its
interpretation. The book presents a unified approach to recent advances in
multimedia and explains how a multimedia ontology can fill the semantic gap
between concepts and the media world. It relays real-life examples of
implementations in different domains to illustrate how this gap can be filled.
The book contains
information that helps with building semantic, content-based search and
retrieval engines and also with developing vertical application-specific search
applications. It guides you in designing multimedia tools that aid in logical
and conceptual organization of large amounts of multimedia data. As a practical
demonstration, it showcases multimedia applications in cultural heritage
preservation efforts and the creation of virtual museums.
The book describes the
limitations of existing ontology techniques in semantic multimedia data
processing, as well as some open problems in the representations and
applications of multimedia ontology. As an antidote, it introduces new ontology
representation and reasoning schemes that overcome these limitations. The long,
compiled efforts reflected in Multimedia Ontology: Representation and
Applications are a signpost for new achievements and developments in
efficiency and accessibility in the field.
The Book is available
for purchase at CRC
Press and Amazon
India.
Prof. Aditya Bagchi got his Ph.D. in Engineering from Jadavpur
University, India. After serving in various industries in India and USA, he
joined the Indian Statistical Institute where he is now a professor in the
Electronics & Communication Sciences Unit. Prof. Bagchi's research
interests cover Data modelling for large graphs, Social and Biological Network
in particular, Development of data mining algorithms, association and
dissociation rules in particular and Design of access control models for
different application areas. In his areas of research, Prof. Bagchi has
published many papers in International journals and peer-reviewed conferences.
He has also written a book on "Data Model for Social Networks"
published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany in 2013. Prof. Bagchi has
delivered invited lectures and tutorials in many universities, research labs,
workshops and conferences in India, Europe and USA. Prof. Bagchi is also
serving as adviser to many Govt. Departments and Projects in India particularly
for E-Governance and Data Security related issues.
Profile: http://researchnation.org/journal/index.php/ijcs/about/editorialTeamBio/28
Prof. Vijay Chandru
Dr. Vijay Chandru is an academic turned entrepreneur. As an
academic, he got his PhD in the mathematics of decision sciences (aka
operations research). He has taught and conducted research in the computational
mathematics of optimization, geometry, logic and biology at Purdue University
(1982-1993) and the Indian Institute of Science (1992-2005). He has co-authored
a book in computational logic and over seventy peer-reviewed research papers.
He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1996. A founder of
Strand Life Sciences (www.strandls.com), a computational biology company,
he has served as its Chairman & Chief Executive Officer. He is also a
founder of the Association of Biotech led Enterprises (ABLE) and continues to
serve as an executive council member. Professor Chandru is also a founder of
PicoPeta Simputers, a private limited company that commercialized the Simputer
technology and brought it to market. As one of the inventors of the Simputer,
Professor Chandru received the Dewang Mehta Award, the first time it was
awarded in 2001 (it is India's highest award for innovation in information
technology). For work with Strand and biotechnology, he was named a Technology
Pioneer of the World Economic Forum in 2007 and the Biospectrum Biotech
Entrepreneur of 2007. For contributions to Science and Society, Professor
Chandru was awarded the Hari Om Trust Award by University Grants Commission
(MHRD) in 2003, the President's Medal of INFORMS in 2006, and was named in the
50 pioneers of change by India Today in 2008.
Profile: http://www.nias.res.in/docs/CV-vijay-chandru.pdf
Prof. Amitabha Mukerjee did his B.Tech (1979) in Mechanical
Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He did his MS (1982) and PhD (1986) from
University Rochester, USA. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He heads the Center for
Robotics, at IIT Kanpur. Prof. Amitabha Mukerjee is also serving as adviser to
many Govt. Departments and Projects in India such as SAIL, TISCO, Jamshedpur
and HAL. He was awarded the Vikram Sarabhai Award, 1999, for contributions and
achievements in the field of Electronics, Informatics, Telematics, and
Automation. His research interest are in the area of Computer Vision,
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Learning and Geometric Modelling.
Profile: http://iitk.ac.in/new/dr-amitabha-mukerjee
Prof. Santanu Chaudhury did his BTech (1984) in Electronics
and Electrical Communication Engineering and PhD (1989) in Computer Science and
Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India.
Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT
Delhi. He was also Dean, Undergraduate Studies at IIT Delhi. He was awarded
INSA medal for young scientists in 1993. He is a fellow of Indian National
Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences, India. He is also a
fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition. His research
interests are in the areas of Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and
Multimedia Systems. He has published more than 150 papers in international
journals and conference proceedings. He has been on the programme committee of
a number of international conferences, including ICCV, ACCV, ICPR, ICVGIP, and
PReMI.
Profile: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~santanuc/index.html
Prof. Narendra Ahuja
Narendra Ahuja is the Director of Information Technology
Research Academy (ITRA) and a Research Professor at University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). ITRA is a national initiative started by the
Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, as a
pilot for a new model of enhancing the quality of advanced technical and
related education across India. He received the B.E. degree with honors in
electronics engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science,
Pilani, India, in 1972, the M.E. degree with distinction in electrical
communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru,
India, in 1974, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of
Maryland, College Park, USA, in 1979. In 1979, he joined the UIUC faculty where
he was Donald Biggar Willet Chaired Professor of Engineering before starting at
ITRA in 2012, and continues as a part-time Research Professor in the Dept. of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute, and Coordinated Science
Laboratory. From 1974 to 1975 he was Scientific Officer in the Department of
Electronics, Government of India, New Delhi. From 1975 to 1979 he was at the
Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park. During
1999-2002, he served as the Founding Director of the first Indian Institute of
Information Technology at Hyderabad, since renamed as International Institute
of Information Technology.
His current
research is focused on extraction and representation of spatial structure in
images and video; integrated use of multiple image-based sources for scene
representation and recognition; computational cameras; and applications of
computer vision to visual communication, image manipulation, and information
retrieval, with focus on developing societies. He has supervised thesis
research of about 50 PhD, 15 MS and 60 Undergrad students and 10 Postdoctoral
scholars. He has co-authored the books Pattern Models (Wiley, 1983), Motion and
Structure from Image Sequences (Springer-Verlag, 1992), and Face and Gesture
Recognition (Kluwer, 2001); and co-edited the book Advances in Image
Understanding (IEEE Press, 1996).
He received the
1999 Emanuel R. Piore award of the IEEE, and the 1998 Technology Achievement
Award of the International Society for Optical Engineering, and 2008 TA
Stewart-Dyer/Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers, 2008-11 Open Innovation Research Award from Hewlett-Packard, and a
2010 Google Research Award. With his students, he shared Best Paper Awards
given by: Piero Zamperoni Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Pattern Recognition
(2014), Symposium on Eye Tracking
Research and Applications (2014), First IEEE International Workshop on
Computer Vision in Sports (2013), International Conference on Pattern
Recognition (2012) and IEEE Transaction on Multimedia (2006). He received
Distinguished Alumnus Award from University of Maryland Department of Computer
Science (2008) and from Birla Institute for Technology and Science, Pilani
(2012). He was selected as Associate for 1998-99 and 2006-07 and Beckman
Associate for 1990-91 in the University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study.
He received University Scholar Award (1985), Presidential (Ronald Reagan) Young
Investigator Award (1984), National Scholarship (1967-72), President's Merit
Award (1966), and President’s (Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan) Scout recognition
(1966).
He is a fellow of
IEEE, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, International
Association for Pattern Recognition, Association for Computing Machinery,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and International Society
for Optical Engineering. He has served on the editorial boards of the journals
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; Computer Vision
and Image Understanding; Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision; Journal of
Pattern Analysis and Applications; Int. Journal of Imaging Systems and
Technology; Journal of Information Science and Technology; and IEE Japan
Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering; and a guest coeditor of
the Artificial Intelligence Journal's special issue on vision.
He has served on
the Advisory/Governing Boards of IIIT, Hyderabad; IIT BHU; IIIT Delhi;
Microsoft Research Connections, USA; and Microsoft Research, India; and
Institute of Communication, Information and Perception Technologies, Scuola
Superiore, Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. He is the founding president of Vision
Technology, a computer vision technology company that has developed and
transferred several prototypes, and a co-founder of a recent start-up to
transfer sports-analysis technology. His hardware/software/knowhow/prototypes
have been used by about 10 companies/organizations.
Profile: http://vision.ai.illinois.edu/ahuja.html
Prof K.K.Biswas did his Btech in Electrical Engineering from IIT
Madras, MTech in Control systems and PhD in signal estimation from IIT
Delhi. He is currently an Emeritus
professor in the Computer Science
department at IIT Delhi. His current area of research interest is image and
video processing, handling fuzzy models in probabilistic domain, machine
learning with applications in Bio-informatics, activity recognition and salient
object detection. His teaching career spans over 35 years. He was a visiting
professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and at the University of
Central Florida, USA. He served as an UNESCO expert for development of
curriculum at university of Nigeria.
Profile: http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~kkb/
Prof. Navjyoti Singh is working as a Professor in Center for Exact
Humanities [CEH], IIIT Hyderabad. His
areas of Interest are Formal Ontology, Scientifc Study of Consciousness,
Foundations of Logic, Mathematics and Linguistics, Crossroads of Science and
Indian Analytic Traditions, History, Philosophy of Science.
Profile: https://www.iiit.ac.in/people/faculty/navjyoti
Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi, a Fulbright
Scholar is currently with Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA).
Prior to joining IIPA, she has served at many prestigious organizations
like INSDOC (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research), New Delhi,
Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata. She has over 155 research publications and a few
books to her credit, besides a number of other publications. Her
recent publication christened “Multimedia Information Extraction and
Digital Heritage Preservation” brought out by World Scientific is a
detailed & distinctive anthology on various facets of the research issues in
the area contributed by the world experts. Her latest publication on “Knowledge
Management for Sustainable Development” brought out by Scientific International
has been released in 2014.
Recipient of several national and international awards that includes
Raizada Memorial Award 1994 for Young Information Scientist
of the Society of Information Science (SIS); SIS Fellowship in 1999;
Fulbright Scholar in 1996-97. ASSIST International Best Paper
Award by ASSIST, USA in 2002. In 2009, Dr. Munshi obtained post of
DEA (directeur d` etudes associe), an academic recognition given to her by
Fondation Maison des sciences de l`homme, Paris, (France) and she is the first
one to receive this recognition in the area of Information Science and
Technology.
She is on the editorial board of a few national/international journals
in the area of Information science and technology that includes the latest
(July 2015) international “Data Science
Journal” which is the only journal of its kind
devoted exclusively to data science in the world. Acting as a member of
various national and international committees, she has been nominated as a
member for the Steering Committee of IAP (Inter Academy Panel) and Task force
on Digital Resources - US National Academy of Sciences, USA and Co-Chair,
Steering Committee, National Digital Preservation Programme (NDPP), GoI. She has recently also been nominated as
member international “Data Policy Committee” (a four member international
committee) by CODATA (International Council for Science (ICSU)).Paris. She has been associated with the Consultative
Development Committee – set up by the Department of Science and Technology
(DST), Govt. of India for the Preparation of “Strategic Road Map
for Data Analytics” for the Government. Dr. Munshi has been on the panel of
International Scientific Programme Committee of the SciDataCon2014 of CODATA,
Paris and the World Data System, Japan.
Her area of interest include- information extraction, IR, knowledge management,
Digital libraries and research mapping.
Profile: http://www.isical.ac.in/~umunshi/
Hiranmay Ghosh has received his Ph.D. Degree from Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, and his B.Tech. and B.Sc. Degrees
from University of Calcutta. He has more than 35 years of experience with
ICT industry and research centers. He is presently a Principal
Scientist with TCS Research, and is leading its multimedia research track.
He is an Adjunct Faculty with IIT Delhi and is associated with its
Multimedia Research Group. His research interests include semantic web, machine
learning, computer vision, image processing, cognitive models and multimedia
applications. He has many publications to his credit in reputed international
journals and peer-reviewed conferences. He is a Senior Member
of IEEE and members of ACM and IUPRAI. He is in the program
committee of several national and international conferences. He is a member of
the Academic Council of IIT-Ropar.
Profile: https://sites.google.com/site/hiranmay/
Anupama Mallik did her B.Sc (1986) in
Physics and Masters in Computer Applications (1989) from Delhi University, and
Ph.D (2012) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), Delhi. Her Ph.D thesis dealt with ontology based exploration of
multimedia contents. She is associated with Multimedia research group of the
Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi and has worked as a Research
Scientist in projects sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology,
Government of India. Her current research interests include Semantic web based
applications, multimedia ontology, ontology applications in Internet of Things,
and in cultural heritage preservation. She is a visiting faculty at the
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D). She is a
member of the ACM.
Workshop
Sponsors
CRC Press,
Taylor & Francis Group
