Summer School on Multimedia Semantics - Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications (SSMS'06) 4-8 September, 2006, Pallini Beach Hotel, Chalkidiki, Greece http://mkg.iti.gr/ssms2006/ *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION* Understanding and thereby manipulating, multimedia content at the semantic level is the only way towards realizing the full potential of emerging digital media technologies aimed at the delivery of compelling multimedia solutions. The integration of knowledge, semantics and low-level multimedia processing for the purpose of automatic semantics extraction from multimedia content is currently the subject of active research in academia and industry all over the world. The SSMS 2006 summer school, bringing together leading researchers and practitioners, provides postgraduate students the opportunity to gain deeper insight into the challenges related to multimedia semantics and the increasingly emerging applications relying on multimedia understanding, and to familiarize themselves with the diverse disciplines involved. The Summer School consists of lectures, discussions and interactions with guest lecturers recognised as experts in their fields. Participants will be provided with a copy of all course lectures. *COURSE TOPICS* Content processing, multimodal techniques, high dimensionality reduction, low-level feature fusion Knowledge-driven content-based, natural language and speech cross- processing Multimedia and the Semantic Web Multimedia analysis and annotation ontologies Knowledge-based, context aware inference for semantic multimedia analysis Scalable multimedia semantic metadata representation and content transmission Semantic adaptation, personalization and retrieval *IMPORTANT DATES* 31 May 2006 - Submission of application (http://mkg.iti.gr/ssms2006/) 15 June 2006 - Notification of Participation 30 June 2006 - Registration *VENUE* SSMS 2006 will be held in Pallini Beach Hotel, in Kallithea,Chalkidiki. Chalkidiki is a peninsula, 69km southeast of the city of Thessaloniki. Sunny, golden sandy beaches, deep and picturesque gulfs, traditional villages and modern tourist resorts, small islands and sheltered bays, pine-clad hills descending to the sea, Mediterranean climate and magnificent natural beauty compose the picture of today's Chalkidiki. *REGISTRATION FEES* Participants will be hosted in single or double rooms, in Pallini Beach Hotel, according to their preference : Single room : 550 Euros Double room : 400 Euros 5 - day lectures and lecture materials 6 - night accomodation (single or double room, 3rd - 9th of September 2006) One breakfast and one meal per day Social events *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens Paola Hobson, Motorola Labs Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University Francois Yvon, GET-ENST ** CONTACT * * For any further information visit: http://mkg.iti.gr/ssms2006 or email: ssms2006@iti.gr