CFP: Multimedia Analysis and Uncertainty Representation (Deadline Extention)

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

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                First International Workshop on

    Multimedia Analysis and Uncertainty Representation (MAUR)

                    Half Day Workshop

             http://image.ntua.gr/events/maur/web/

 

 

              First International Conference on

    Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (6-8 December 2006)

        Wednesday December 6 2006 - Athens, Greece

                http://samt2006.org/index.html

 

DESCRIPTION Multimedia processing like analysis and retrieval are

inherently difficult tasks. In order to assist multimedia

processing algorithms and applications, researchers are proposing

ways to enrich multimedia algorithms with knowledge

representational formalisms. In this way the multimedia processing

techniques could take advantage of formal representation and

automated reasoning methods.

 

On the other hand multimedia processing algorithms are usually

facing a huge amount of uncertain and imprecise knowledge. Hence

knowledge representational formalisms must be equipped with

mechanisms that are able to cope with such type of knowledge.

 

The last couple of years a quite impressive number of uncertainty

handling formalism have been developed, like fuzzy and

probabilistic Description Logics, fuzzy, possibilistic and

probabilistic Logic Programming languages etc. Such logical

formalisms combine expressive power and decidable reasoning

techniques.

 

The use of such formalisms in multimedia applications would

greatly benefit these applications and will provide new research

results.

 

TOPICS

 Multimedia Content Representation and Reasoning.

 Image and Video Analysis with Uncertainty Reasoning.

 Segmentation.

 Recognition.

 Multimedia Information retrieval.

 Scene Interpretation.

 Automatic Annotation.

 Classification and indexing of multimedia information objects.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

****Full Paper Submission: September 15, 2006****

 

Acceptance Notification: October 1, 2006

 

Camera-Ready Papers due: November 2, 2006

 

Conference: December 6, 2006

 

SUBMISSION

 

Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at leasttwo

members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will

be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality,

potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted

papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least

one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at

the SAMT 2006 Conference, and committed to attend the MAUR

Workshop.

 

MAUR 2006 welcomes  the submission of two kind of papers:

 

 short position paper (2 pages maximum in Springer LNCS format),

 giving a brief description of an on-going implementation,

 algorithm or system.

 

 full papers (8 pages maximum in Springer LNCS format), good original

 research and application papers of the topics of the workshop.

 

Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to

gstoil@image.ece.ntua.gr prior to the paper submission deadline.

 

Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer

Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

For complete details, see Information for LNCS Authors.

 

All papers selected by the program committee will be published by

provided by the SAMT.

 

All papers accepted will be presented during the workshop. This

would include 20 minutes presentation (15 minutes presentation + 5

minutes discussion) for full papers, while authors of accepted

position papers will have a 5-minute slot to share their ideas.

 

ORGANIZERS

Giorgos Stoilos (National and Technical University of Athens) 

Jeff Z. Pan (Department of Computing Science, The University of Aberdeen) 

Umberto Straccia (ISTI - Italian National Research Council at Pisa)

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alessio Cartocci (International Webmasters

Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG), US)

Barbara Barry (MIT Media Lab, US) 

Carlos Viegas Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) 

Christian Halaschek (University of Maryland, USA) 

Ebroul Izquierdo (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 

Florence Sedes (IRIT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France)

Giorgos Stamou (National and Technical University of Athens, Greece) 

Massimo Martinelli (National Research Council - Institute of Information
Science and Technologies, Italy) 

Qi Tian (University of Texas at San Antonio, US) 

Ralf Moeller (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) 

Sofia Tsekeridou (Democritus University of Thrace School of Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept, Greece) 

Thomas Franz (Universitat Koblenz - Landau, Germany) 

Ying Li (IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, USA)