11TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems

April 12-13, 2012 – Naples, Italy

W2GIS 2012 PROGRAM

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April 11, 2012

19:00 - 21:30 : Welcome Reception

April 12, 2012

08:30 - 09:15 : Registration
09:15 - 09:30 : Welcome and Opening
09:30 - 10:30 : Keynote Talk
Where on Earth was that? Automated photo captioning with geographical context.
Chris Jones
10:30 - 11:00 : Break
11:00 - 13:00 : Geo Semantics (Session Chair: Sergio Di Martino )
11:00 - 11:30: A Context-Aware Web Content Generator Based on Personal Tracking
Reinaldo Bezerra Braga , Socrates De Moraes Medeiros Da Costa , Windson Viana De Carvalho , Rossana Maria De Castro Andrade , Herve Martin
11:30 - 12:00: A holistic semantic similarity measure for viewports in interactive maps
Andrea Ballatore , David Wilson , Michela Bertolotto
12:00 - 12:30: Recommendations Based on Region and Spatial Profiles
Gavin Mcardle , Mathieu Petit , Cyril Ray , Christophe Claramunt
12:30 - 13:00: Enforcing Protection Mechanisms for Geographic Data
Alban Gabillon , Patrick Capolsini
13:00 - 14:15 : Lunch Break, with America's Cup Race
14:15 - 15:25 : 3D and Multimodal Spatial Interaction (Session Chair: Christophe Clarmunt )
14:45 - 15:05: Effects of Variations in 3D Spatial Search Techniques on Mobile Query Speed vs Accuracy
Junjun Yin , James Carswell
14:45 - 15:05: ARCAMA-3D - A Context-Aware Augmented Reality Mobile Platform for Environmental Discovery
Betul Aydin , Jerome Gensel , Sylvie Calabretto , Bruno Tellez
15:05 - 15:25: Speech and Multimodal Interaction in mobile GIS Search: a case study
Francesco Cutugno , Vincenza Anna Leano , Roberto Rinaldi , Gianluca Mignini
15:25 - 15:45 : Break
15:45 - 16:35 : Spatial Human-Computer Interaction (Session Chair: James Carswell )
15:45 - 16:15: Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Exploration and Visualization with a new Visual Metaphor for Hierarchical and Stratified Temporal Domain
Francesco Cerasuolo , Francesco Cutugno , Vincenza Anna Leano
16:15 - 16:35: Tag@Map: A Web-based Application for Visually Analysing Geographic Information through Georeferenced Tag Clouds
Davide De Chiara , Vincenzo Del Fatto , Monica Sebillo , Giuliana Vitiello , Genoveffa Tortora
19:30 - 22:30 : Social Dinner

April 13, 2012

09:15 - 10:45 : Sensor Networks (Session Chair: Michela Bertolotto )
09:15 - 09:45: Integrating Trend Clusters for Spatio-Temporal Interpolation of Missing Sensor Data
Anna Ciampi , Annalisa Appice , Pietro Guccione , Donato Malerba
09:45 - 10:15: Discovering Sensor Services with Social Network Analysis and Expanded SWQRL Querying
Mohamed Bakillah , Steve H. L. Liang
10:15 - 10:45: Leveraging Power of Transmission for Range-free Localization of Tiny Sensors
Marcello Cinque , Christian Esposito , Flavio Frattini
10:45 - 11:15 : Break
11:15 - 12:45 : Trajectory Analysis (Session Chair: Taro Tezuka )
11:15 - 11:45: Clustering User Trajectories to Find Patterns for Social Interaction Applications
Reinaldo Bezerra Braga , Ali Tahir , Michela Bertolotto , Herve Martin
11:45 - 12:15: Making a Pictorial and Verbal Travel Trace from a GPS Trace
Pablo Martinez Lerin , Daisuke Yamamoto , Naohisa Takahashi
12:15 - 12:45: Event Processing and Real-time Monitoring over Streaming Traffic Data
Kostas Patroumpas , Timos Sellis
12:45 - 14:15 : Lunch Break, with America's Cup Race
14:15 - 15:05 : Positioning (Session Chair: Adriano Peron )
14:15 - 14:45: Asynchronous Ultrasonic Trilateration for Indoor Positioning of Mobile Phones
Viacheslav Filonenko , Charlie Cullen , James Carswell
14:45 - 15:05: A Semantic Resolver for Coordinate Reference Systems
Peter Baumann , Dimitar Misev , Mihaela Rusu
15:05 - 15:30 : Break
15:30 - 16:30 : Invited Special Presentation
Map 2.0: Challenges in the use of Spatial Data in the Automotive Domain
Andreas Sasse
16:30 - 16:50 : Closing

Keynote

Invited Speaker: Christopher B. Jones from the School of Computer Science at Cardiff University (UK).

Title: Where on Earth was that? Automated photo captioning with geographical context.

Abstract

The presence of GPS devices in association with digital cameras provides the possibility of reverse geo-coding from the coordinates to generate place names for captioning the photos. Some cameras also have a digital compass which enables greater precision in anticipating the likely subject of the photo. This talk presents an overview of a natural language photo captioning system that aims to describe the geographical context of the photo with regard to its possible subject, in association with proximal and regional place names. A corpus of captioned photos was used to build field-based models of the applicability of spatial prepositions and to create templates corresponding to several common patterns of caption language. An online meta-gazetteer that accesses multiple sources of place name geo-data is used to retrieve candidate place names that are combined with appropriate spatial prepositions to instantiate the caption templates. The use of semantically enhanced 3D city models is also demonstrated to create more detailed photo scene descriptions.

Short Bio:

Chris Jones has been Professor of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the School of Computer Science & Informatics at Cardiff University, UK, since 2000. He has held previous academic positions at the University of Glamorgan and the University of Cambridge. Prior to his academic career, he was employed on geological computing applications at BP Exploration and at the British Geological Survey.
Current research interests focus on the area of geographical information retrieval including the development of online gazetteers, semantic enrichment of 3D city models and the use of spatial language in mobile applications for photo captioning and augmented reality. He has also worked in the areas of automated cartographic design with regard to map generalisation and automated text placement; multiscale spatial databases; environmental change detection; spatio-temporal data modelling; and the computer reconstruction and visualisation of fossils.
Research in the field of map labelling led to the initial development of the Maplex label placement software marketed by ESRI.
He has received research funding from UK Research councils, industry and the European Commission and has published widely in journals and conferences in the field of geographical information science, as well as publishing a text book on GIS and Computer Cartography.

Invited Special Presentation

Speaker: Andreas Sasse from the Volkswagen Group Research (DE).

Title: Map 2.0: Challenges in the use of Spatial Data in the Automotive Domain

Short Bio:

Andreas Sasse holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany, where he was employed as a Researcher at the Institute of Flight Guidance. During this time his research work focused mainly on the use of satellite-based localization and navigation systems for safety relevant applications in the Automotive domain. He was involved in different projects working on automatic and autonomous driving. Since 2010 Andreas Sasse works as a project manager for the Volkswagen Group Research, Department of Driver Information Systems, in Wolfsburg. He is responsible for digital maps, extended floating car data and data mining as well as for several applications based on the use of spatial data.