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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
First international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT 2006)
Former European Workshop on the Integration of knowledge, semantic and digital Media Technologies (EWIMT)
December 6-8, 2006 - Athens, Greece - http://samt2006.org/
Registration - http://samt2006.org/registration_info.html [*** by November 27 ***]
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The first international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT) targets to narrow the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The Semantic Gap.
SAMT started out as two workshops, EWIMT 2004 and EWIMT 2005, that quickly achieved enormous success in attracting high-quality papers and over 100 participants from across Europe and beyond. This year EWIMT has turned into the full-fledged conference SAMT, addressing integrative research on new knowledge-based forms of digital media systems. It brings together those forums, projects, institutions and individuals investigating the integration of knowledge, semantics and low-level multimedia processing, and links them with industrial research and development engineers who exploit the underlying emerging technology.
In cooperation with the European Commission DG Information Society, the third day of the conference is dedicated to featuring the launch of the 7th Framework ICT Research programme and keynote talks from EC representatives.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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Short program - http://samt2006.org/short_program.html
Detailed program - http://samt2006.org/program.html
KEYNOTE TALKS
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* Semantics from Multimedia: Where is the Sense in a SenseCams?
Alan F. Smeaton - http://samt2006.org/keynote.html#smeaton
* Bridging the Semantic Gap: Challenges from the Culture-Heritage Domain
Guus Schreiber - http://samt2006.org/keynote.html#schreiber
EC REPRESENTATIVES
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* From Intelligent Content to Actionable Knowledge: Research Directions and Opportunities under FP7
Roberto Cencioni - http://samt2006.org/european.html#cencioni
* Networked Audiovisual Systems: R&D for the Birth of a New Sector in Europe
Luis Rodriguez-Rosello - http://samt2006.org/european.html#rosello
* Bilateral sessions [proposal clinics] - http://samt2006.org/european.html#bilateral [*** by November 24 ***]
INDUSTRY DAY
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Multimedia Semantic Analysis in the service of the media industry
http://samt2006.org/industry.html
WORKSHOPS
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* Semantic-enhanced Multimedia Presentation Systems [SEMPS 2006]
http://mmit.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/SEMPS2006/
* Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals [LSAS 2006]
http://irgroup.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/lsas2006/
TUTORIALS
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* The Reality of the Semantic Gap in Image Retrieval
http://samt2006.org/tutorial1.html
* Human Language Technology for the semantic Annotation of Multimedia Material
http://samt2006.org/tutorial2.html
* Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video
http://samt2006.org/tutorial3.html
SPECIAL SESSIONS / POSTERS & DEMOS
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Special sessions - http://samt2006.org/sessions.html
Posters & demos - http://samt2006.org/papers.html#posters
Projects special poster session - http://samt2006.org/projects.html
PUBLICATIONS
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Proceedings - http://samt2006.org/proceedings.html
Accepted papers - http://samt2006.org/papers.html
MTAP special issue - http://samt2006.org/mtap.html
JoWS special issue - http://samt2006.org/jows.html
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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Registration - http://samt2006.org/registration_info.html [*** by November 27 ***]
Conference venue - http://samt2006.org/venue.html
Accomodation - http://samt2006.org/accommodation.html
Local information - http://samt2006.org/localinfo.html
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs
* Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
* Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Technical Programme Chairs
* Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
* Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Spessial Sessions
* Jose Martinez, Universidad Auto'noma de Madrid, Spain
Tutorials & Workshops
* Raphael Troncy, CWI, The Netherlands
* Vassilis Tzouvaras, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
EU Liaison
* Paola Hobson, Motorola Labs, UK
SPONSORS
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* http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ -- Information Society Technologies (IST), European Commission
* http://www.eurasip.org/ -- European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP)
* http://www.cost292.org/ -- European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research, COST 292 Action - Semantic Multimodal Analysis of Digital Media
* http://www.iee.org/oncomms/pn/visualinformation/index.cfm -- Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Visual Information Engineering Professional Network (VIE PN)
* http://kspace.qmul.net/ -- K-Space Network of Excellence - Knowledge Space of Semantics inference for automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content
* http://muscle-noe.org/ -- Muscle Network of Excellence - Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning
* http://www.atc.gr/home.aspx?Page=home&lang=EN -- Athens Technology Center (ATC)
* http://www.dw-world.de/ -- Deutsche Welle
* http://www.mesh-ip.eu/ -- Mesh Integrated Project
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