Call for Papers SAMT Workshop on Semantic 3D Media (S-3D) 3 December 2008, Koblenz, Germany http://www.focusk3d.eu/s-3d/ in conjunction with the Third Int. Conf. on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT) http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de/ submission deadline: ================================================================= *Description* Research in the fields of representation and processing of the semantics of visual media has received a very high push in the last years. Semantic 3D Media is highly interdisciplinary and its evolution is conditioned by how experts in Computer Graphics will be able to communicate and exchange ideas and solutions with the community of the Semantic Web. S-3D wishes to establish a scientific forum for exchanging and disseminating novel ideas and techniques in the emerging research field of Semantic 3D Media. S-3D aims to foster the comprehension, adoption and use of knowledge intensive technologies for coding and sharing 3D media content in consolidated and emerging application communities. S-3D targets at the scientific community working in the field of 3D graphics and knowledge technologies and encourages a dialogue between researchers and 3D content creators/users in a variety of application domains, such as medicine and bioinformatics, gaming and simulation, CAD and virtual product modelling, archaeology and cultural heritage. The event is organized and sponsored by the EU FP7 IST project FOCUS K3D. Prospective contributors are invited to submit papers (max 4 A4 pages) at the SAMT 2008 submission site: https://www.conftool.net/samt2008/ Topics include, but are not limited to: * Semantics-driven 3D shape segmentation * Formalization and representation of shape semantics * Content-based 3D retrieval and classification * Semantics-driven 3D visualization * 3D media ontologies * Semantics-based 3D modelling * Knowledge driven multimedia content analysis and understanding * Intelligent media creation and processing tools * Knowledge based inference for semantic media annotation Additionally, we will invite speakers who are recognized as important contributors to the topic of the workshop. The workshop will end with a panel discussion session that will complement the scientific view with an application perspective on domain-specific issues. The contributions will be reviewed by the program committee and the accepted ones will be presented during the workshop. We will seek journal publication opportunities for a selection of the workshop papers. *Important dates* Submissions: August 31 Notifications: October 5 Camera-ready: October 26 *Location* The workshop is held held on December 3 in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT), 3-5 December 2008, Koblenz, Germany. *Registration* Workshop attendees will have to pay the SAMT 2008 workshop registration fee, and also register and attend the main SAMT 2008 conference. *Workshop Chairs* Bianca Falcidieno, CNR-IMATI, Italy Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, MIRALab, Switzerland Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University, The Netherlands *Tentative Program committee* Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiara Catalano, CNR-IMATI, Italy Frédéric Cazals, INRIA, France Issei Fujishiro, Tohoku University, Japan Alejandra Garcia-Rojas, EPFL, Switzerland Forouzan Golshani, California State at Long Beach, USA Hiranmay Ghosh, Tata Infotech Research Center, Delhi, India William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn Catherine Houstis, CERETETH, Greece Wolfgang Huerst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Michela Mortara, CNR-IMATI, Italy Laura Papaleo, Univ. Genoa, Italy Marios Pitikakis, CERETETH, Greece Francesco Robbiano, CNR-IMATI, Italy Michela Spagnuolo, CNR-IMATI, Italy Andre Stork, Fraunhofer, Gemany Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland George Vasilakis, CERETETH, Greece