I was a research visitor at KMi between October 2009 and January 2010 and used my time there to learn and work on my PhD. Normally I am employed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology in Ilmenau, Germany. The project I am there working on is called THESEUS. In THESEUS I am concerned with the evaluation of multimedia analysis and retrieval approaches.

In my PhD I am concerned with the combination of ontologies with automatic annotation algorithms for photos and investigate how far these machine learning approaches can benefit from the additional incorporated knowledge.

Keys: Image Annotation, Ontologies, Evaluation, Benchmarks,

Nowak, S., Llorente, A., Motta, E. and Rueger, S. (2010) The Effect of Semantic Relatedness Measures on Multi-label Classification Evaluation, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Xi'an, China, pp. 303-310

Nowak, S. and Rueger, S. (2010) How reliable are annotations via crowdsourcing? a study about inter-annotator agreement for multi-label image annotation, The 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), Philadelphia, USA

Nowak, S., Lukashevich, H., Dunker, P. and Rueger, S. (2010) Performance measures for multilabel evaluation, The 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), Philadelphia, PA, USA

Brandenburg, K., (2009) Music search and recommendation Handbook of Multimedia for Digital Entertainment and Arts, eds. Borko Furht, Springer

Nowak, S. and Dunker, P. (2009) Overview of the CLEF 2009 Large-scale Visual Concept Detection and Annotation Task, CLEF 2009 Workshop, Corfu, Greece