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.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- 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
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science series (LNCS). Full papers are expected to be 10-12 A4 pages formatted according to LNCS style, and should present previously unpublished original results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The accepted full paper contributions will be presented during the oral sessions and will appear in the conference proceedings. Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Springer's journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications.
The submitted full papers will be peer reviewed by the technical program committee.
Important dates:
Deadline for Full Papers: June 15, 2009 (extended, was May 25, 2009)
Notification of Acceptance for Full and Short Papers: July 27, 2009 (was July 6, 2009)
Camera-ready Papers due: September 7, 2009
Submission:
The submission deadline has already passed.
