Raphaël TRONCY

Name: Raphaël TRONCY Service: Eurecom - Multimedia Communications  Function: Assistant-Professor Email: Raphael.Troncy at eurecom.fr Phone: 04 93 00 82 42 Fax: 04 93 00 82 00 Office: 431 Web site:www.eurecom.fr/~troncy

Research

Current research topics

• His research interest include Semantic Web and Multimedia Technologies, Knowledge Representation, Ontology Modeling and Alignment and Web Science.
• His current specific subjects : Multimedia semantics, Interlinking multimedia, Multimedia metadata interoperability, Multimedia metadata provenance

Current research interests

• Raphaël Troncy is an expert in audio visual metadata and in combining existing metadata standards (such as MPEG-7) with current Semantic Web technologies.
• He works also closely with the IPTC standardization body and the European Broadcasting Union on the relationship between the News Architecture and the Semantic Web technologies.

Current research memberships

• He is the W3C Advisory Committee Representative for the member Institut Telecom / EURECOM
• He is founder and co-chair of the W3C Media Fragments Working Group and of the W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group 
• He is an active member of the W3C Media Annotations Working Group and of the W3C Social Web Incubator Group 
• He served as a technical reviewer of more than 35 international conferences and journals and has organized around 10 workshops
• He is an expert of the European Commission under the 7th ICT Framework Programme and of the French National Research Agency (ANR)

Selected publications

• 2011 - Finding media illustrating events
• 2011 - A URI-based approach for addressing fragments of media resources on the Web
• 2010 - Linking events with media
• 2010 - LODE : une ontologie pour représenter des événements dans le web de données
• 2010 - VAMP : a service for validating MPEG-7 descriptions w.r.t. to formal profile definitions