*************************************************************** * Call for papers and posters * * * * WORKSHOP ON CROSS-MEDIA INFORMATION ANALYSIS, * * EXTRACTION AND MANAGEMENT * * * * 3rd International Conference on * * Semantic And digital Media Technologies * * * * Koblenz, Germany, December 3, 2008 * * http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de/workshop-crossmedia/ * *************************************************************** In conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies - SAMT 2008, Koblenz, Germany. =============== Important Dates =============== Paper Submission : August 31 Notification : October 5 Camera Ready : October 26 Workshop : December 3 =================== Objectives & Topics =================== Demand for techniques that handle multimedia content is increasing with the wide spread of new ways of communicating and interacting: Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, are all environments where users exchange rich multimedia content (i.e., textual, visual, audio, structure). Users demand for more: they want to exploit the richness of multimedia information present in their documents, such as OpenDocument, Microsoft Office's, PDF, photos and videos in Flickr and YouTube, bookmarks in del.icio.us, Wikipedia, TV Broadcast News, etc. Thus, it is impossible to conceive nowadays a world without applications that exploit the information available on these sources of rich multimedia content. This workshop aims at being a forum to discuss the advances and challenges of cross-media information analysis and extraction methods that can enhance state-of-the-art single-media analysis approaches and enrich current multimedia information management applications. We welcome innovative research papers that address fundamental research questions with concrete research proposals, achievements and evaluation and Posters aimed at disseminating initial research results and systems to handle cross-media research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cross-media information analysis and extraction algorithms - Knowledge driven cross-media information analysis - Context-aware analysis of cross-media information - Cross-media information retrieval - Reasoning with cross-media information - Metadata extensions to support semantic annotations of cross-media information - Advances in manual annotation methods of cross-media information - Semi-automatic and automatic annotation methods for cross-media information - Applications for manual annotation of rich multimedia documents - Addressing and storage of cross-media information - Cross-media information delivery and management - Synchronization of media objects for cross media analysis - Cross media features, nature, scope and integration approaches =========== Submissions =========== The cross-media information analysis, extraction and management workshop welcomes six (6) pages long regular papers addressing fundamental research questions with concrete research proposals, achievements and evaluation and two (2) pages long posters aiming to disseminate initial research results of systems handling cross-media data. All paper and poster submissions mush follow the LNCS style publication format and should be submitted electronically via http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de/index.php?page=submission. ========== Conference ========== The 3-day-conference gives us the opportunity to take part in various additional activities such as: industrial exhibition, social events, excursions, etc. The conference will take place in Koblenz, a 2000-year-old town situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine and Mosel. The region of Koblenz is also famous for its excellent wines. For more information please visit the conference web site: http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de ==================== Organizing Committee ==================== Jo?o Magalh?es The University of Sheffield, UK Spiros Nikolopoulos CERTH/ITI, Greece =============== Invited Speaker =============== Yiannis Kompatsiaris CERTH/ITI, Greece ================= Program committee ================= Yannis Avrithis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Jenny Benois-Pineau (Universit? Bordeaux, France), Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany), Philipp Cimiano (University of Karlsruhe, Germany), Simon Coltom (Imperial College London, UK), Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany), Shahram Ebadollahi (IBM Research), Thomas Franz (University of Koblenz, Germany) Jose Iria (The University of Sheffield, UK), Ebroul Izquierdo (Queen Mary, UK), Lars Shmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim, Germany), Stefan Ruger (The Open University, UK), Vojtech Svatek (University of Economics, Prague), Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo Research, Spain)