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Call for Contributions: SAMT 2009 - 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies
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Call for Contributions

SAMT 2009
4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies

2-4 December 2009
Graz, Austria

http://www.samt2009.org/

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The 4th 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.

Contributions
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We invite the following types of contributions:
* Full papers
* Short papers
* Workshop proposals
* Tutorial proposals

Details on the calls can be found at http://www.samt2009.org/calls

In case of questions please contact samt09-office-yaR9tdtELg7k7+***@public.gmane.org

Topics
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* Semantic Analysis of Multimedia
- Knowledge assisted multimedia analysis
- Content-based multimedia analysis linked with natural language/speech processing
* Semantic Retrieval of Multimedia
- Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval
- Semantic retrieval of 3D objects
- Machine Learning and relevance feedback for finding semantics
- Semantic-driven multimedia content adaptation and summarization
* Semantic Metadata Management of Multimedia
- Metadata management for multimedia
- Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures
- Standards bridging the multimedia and knowledge domains
* Semantic User Interfaces for Multimedia
- Interfaces and personalization for interaction with large multimedia - repositories
- Semantic media annotation
- Inference and machine learning for semi-automatic annotation
- Browsing multimedia archives
- Device-specific access to and adaptation of multimedia
* Semantics in Visualization and Computer Graphics
- illustrative depiction and rendering
- mapping meaning to presentation content
- smart virtual environments
- supporting knowledge discovery
* Applications of Semantic Multimedia
- Social multimedia tagging
- Context, user, network and semantics-aware media engineering
- Multimedia mash-ups
- Case studies with clear, innovative lessons learned


Important Dates
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Workshops/Tutorials
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Submission: April 27, 2009
Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2009

Full/Short Papers
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Full paper submission: May 25, 2009
Short paper submission: June 21, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2009
Camera-ready papers: September 7, 2009

Conference
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Conference dates: December 2-4, 2009


Committees
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General and Local Chairs
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Werner Haas, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria
Georg Thallinger, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria
Werner Bailer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria

Program Chairs
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Bernard Mérialdo, Eurecom, France
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Greece
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore

The members of the technical programme committee will be listed on the web site.

Workshop/Tutorial Chairs
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Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Klaus Tochtermann, Know Center, Austria
Josep Blat, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Industry Day Chairs
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Wessel Kraaij, TNO, Netherlands
Alberto Messina, RAI CRIT, Italy

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