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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.

Proposals are invited for the tutorial program of SAMT 2009. The purpose of the tutorial program is to provide an audience of both postgraduate students and senior researchers with a comprehensive overview of the latest research in the complementary fields of multimedia analysis and the Semantic Web, with emphasis on cross-disciplinary approaches. Tutorials should provide the audience with the opportunity to gain deeper insights into the important challenges to be addressed in these traditionally disparate fields, and thereby provide motivation for future interdisciplinary research. We seek high quality proposals for tutorials on topics including but not limited to:

  • Multimedia and the Semantic Web
  • Multimedia analysis and ontology-based annotations
  • Knowledge-based, context aware inference for semantic multimedia analysis
  • Scalable multimedia semantic metadata representation and content transmission
  • Semantic adaptation, personalization and retrieval for multimedia

The tutorials will be held on the day before the main conference and each tutorial will be half day long. Proposals should be no more than two pages in length and should contain the following information:

  • Title of the tutorial
  • Brief technical description of the tutorial, outlining the goals and the technical content it targets
  • Brief description of the target audience
  • Contact information of the tutorial organizers and a short bio for each highlighting relevant experience
  • A list of related tutorials/courses/lectures held in the last 3 years or to be held in 2009 and, if possible, links to materials of these tutorials/courses/lectures.

Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the workshop/tutorial chairs.

Important dates:
Deadline for Tutorial Proposals: May 17, 2009 (extended, was April 27, 2009)
Notification of Acceptance for Tutorial Proposals: May 29, 2009 (was May 11, 2009)

Submission:
The submission deadline has already passed. See Tutorials for accepted tutorials.