Raphaël Troncy is an Assistant Professor in the multimedia
department of EURECOM, leading the multimedia semantics research group.
He is now the primary investigator of a number of National (ACAV,
DataLift, WAVE) and European (FP7 Petamedia, FP7 LinkedTV, FP7
MediaMixer, AAL ALIAS) projects where semantic web and multimedia
analysis technologies are used together. He has (co)authored more than
100 papers about multimedia metadata modeling, semantic web systems,
social media sharing and user interaction. He benefited from a PhD fellowship at the National Audio-Visual
Institute (INA) of Paris where he received with honors his PhD from the
University of Grenoble (INRIA/INA) in 2004. He selected as an ERCIM
Post-Doctorate Research Associate 2004-2006 where he visited the
National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa (Italy) and the National
Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in
Amsterdam (The Netherlands). He was a senior researcher for CWI from
2006 till 2009. Raphaël Troncy is also co-chair of the W3C Media
Fragments Working Group and W3C Incubator Group on Multimedia Semantics,
contributes to the W3C Media Annotations and W3C Government Linked Data
Working Groups. More information can be found on his webpage and Twitter. Selected topic: His research focus is on developing event-centric interfaces for
multimedia content. Hence, his group has developed the first price
semantic web challenge awarded tool named EventMedia that reconciliate
live event and media descriptions harvested from the web and enable
users to relive past events. More recently, his group has also developed
a social media collector and different techniques that tell stories
about media shared by people.
Keywords: multimedia semantics, social media, multimedia metadata
modeling, events in multimedia
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