------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Second international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT 2007) Former European Workshop on the Integration of knowledge, semantic and digital Media Technologies (EWIMT) December 5-7, 2007 Genova, Italy http://samt2007.ge.imati.cnr.it/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OBJECTIVES ---------- The international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technologies (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. Last year EWIMT turned into the full-fledged conference SAMT, addressing integrative research on new knowledge-based forms of digital media systems. SAMT 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 will feature keynote talks from EC representatives. TOPICS ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Integration of multimedia processing and Semantic Web technologies * Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures * Knowledge assisted multimedia analysis and access * Knowledge based inference for semi-automatic semantic media annotation * Integration of content-based multimedia analysis with natural language and speech processing * Multimodal techniques, high dimensionality reduction and low-level feature fusion * Revelance feedback for finding semantics * Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval * Metadata management for multimedia * Browsing large multimedia archives * Scalable, semantic-driven multimedia content adaptation and summarization * Interfaces and personalisation for interaction with large multimedia repositories * Social tagging, ontologies and multimedia content * Semantics-driven multimedia presentation generation * Context, user, network and semantics-aware media engineering * Standards bridging the multimedia and knowledge domains PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------- Original contributions should be submitted electronically according to the instructions that will be posted to the conference web site. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science series (LNCS). Full papers are expected to be 12-14 A4 pages and should present previously unpublished original results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The accepted full paper contributions will be presented during the plenary sessions and will appear in the conference proceedings. Short papers are expected to be 4 A4 pages at most. The accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings as extended abstract and presented as posters during the conference. Prospective contributors are invited to submit their papers on-line according to the guidelines at http://samt2007.ge.imati.cnr.it. Information for LNCS Authors at http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 Submissions will open in May 2007. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- 20 April Special Sessions Submission 4 May Notification for Special Sessions 21 May Tutorials & Workshops Proposals 4 June Paper Submission 31 July Paper Notification 10 Sept Camera-ready Papers for information, please contact samt07-chairs@ge.imati.cnr.it ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Conference Chairs: Bianca Falcidieno, IMATI-CNR, Italy Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Technical Programme Chairs: Michela Spagnuolo, IMATI-CNR, Italy Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany Special Sessions Chair: Werner Haas, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria Workshops Chair Catherine Houstis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Tutorials Chair Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ----------------- Technical Programme Committee Bruno Bachimont, INA, France Wolf-Tilo Balke, Univ Hannover, Germany Jenny Benois-Pineau, University of Bordeaux, France Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA, France Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Philipp Cimiano, AIFB, Germany Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, FR Christophe Garcia, France Telecom, France Gregory Grefenstette, LIC2M, CEA-LIST William I. Grosky, University of Michigan, US Werner Haas, JOANNEUM Research, Austria Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland Bruno Bachimont, Institut National de Audiovisuell, France Wolf-Tilo Balke, University of Hannover, Germany Jenny Benois-Pineau, University of Bordeaux, France Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA, France Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, UK Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Philipp Cimiano, AIFB Universitat Karlsuhe, Germany Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH Christophe Garcia, France Telecom, France Gregory Grefenstette, LIC2M, CEA-LIST William I. Grosky, University of Michigan, US Werner Haas, Joanneum Research, Austria Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland Paola Hobson, Motorola Labs, UK Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London, UK Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, The Netherlands Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK Hyoung Joong Kim, Korea University, Korea Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Paul Lewis, University of Southampton, UK Simone Marini, IMATI-GE / CNR, Italy Ferran Marques, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Jose Martinez, GTI-UAM, Spain Adrian Matellanes, Motorola Labs, UK Bernard Merialdo, EURECOM, France Ralph Moller, Hamburg Institute of Technology, Germany Frank Nack, LIRIS - University Claude Bernard, Lion, France Milind Naphade, IBM, US Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research Laboratories, Endhoven Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK Thrasyvoulos Pappas, Northwestern University, US Dietrich Paulus, University of Koblenz, Germany Ewald Quak, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Fausto Rabitti, ISTI-CNR, I Andrew Salway, University of Surrey, UK Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London Simone Santini, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Francis Schmitt, CNRS, France Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, D Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Vojtech Svatek, University of Economic, Prague, Czech Republic Raphael Troncy, CWI, NL Manolis Vavalis, ITI, GR Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University, NL Anne Verroust, INRIA, France Paulo Villegas, Telefonica I+D, Spain Li-Qun Xu, British Telecom, UK