MTAP Special Issue on SAMT 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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*            MTAP Special Issue on SAMT 2010                  *
*     Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications            *
*   Special Issue on Semantic And digital Media Technologies  *
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Large amounts of multimedia material, such as images, audio,
video, and 3D/4D material, as well as computer generated 2D, 3D,
and 4D content, already exist and are growing at increasing rates.
While these amounts are growing, managing distribution of and
access to multimedia material is becoming ever harder, both for
lay and professional users.

The SAMT Special Issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications is
going to tackle these problems by investigating the semantics
and pragmatics of multimedia generation, management, and user
access. It aims to attract scientifically valuable research
tackling the semantic gap between the low-level signal data
representation of multimedia material and the high-level meaning
that providers, consumers, and prosumers associate with the content.

We welcome innovative solutions that consider some or all factors
in the process of multimedia generation and consumption, including
methods from low-level signal processing up to the mobile context
in which a user operates.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1) SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND MULTIMEDIA
 a) Knowledge assisted multimedia analysis
 b) Content-based multimedia analysis linked with natural
    language and speech processing

2) SEMANTIC RETRIEVAL AND MULTIMEDIA
 a) Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval
 b) Semantic retrieval of 3D objects
 c) Machine Learning and relevance feedback for finding
    semantics
 d) Semantic-driven multimedia content adaptation and
    summarisation

3) SEMANTIC METADATA MANAGEMENT OF MULTIMEDIA
 a) Metadata management for multimedia
 b) Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures
 c) Standards bridging the multimedia and knowledge domains
 d) Linked data principles for multimedia

4) SEMANTIC USER INTERFACES FOR MULTIMEDIA
 a) Interfaces and personalisation for interaction with large
    multimedia repositories
 b) Semantic media annotation
 c) Inference and machine learning for semi-automatic annotation
 d) Browsing multimedia archives
 e) Device-specific access to and adaptation of multimedia

5) SEMANTICS IN VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS
 a) Illustrative depiction and rendering
 b) Mapping meaning to presentation content
 c) Smart virtual environments
 d) Supporting knowledge discovery

6) APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTIC MULTIMEDIA
 a) Social multimedia tagging
 b) Context, user, network and semantics-aware media engineering
 c) Multimedia mash-ups
 d) Case studies with clear, innovative lessons learned

7) SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION IN MEDICINE
 a) Semantic analysis of medical images
 b) Semantic visualisation of medical data
 c) Computer-aided diagnosis

8) MINING OF SOCIAL MEDIA
 a) Network analysis and social structures detection in Web 2.0
 b) Ontology learning on and in the Web 2.0
 c) Discovering (cross system) associations, large social
    networks and communities
 d) Predicting trends and user behaviour (e.g. misuse and fraud/spam)
 e) Multimedia analysis; audio/visual processing; aggregating
    information from different modalities

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Paper Format
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Papers can be up to 25 pages in length and should be formatted
according to the requirements of the journal.
Detailed information about the Journal, including an author
guide and detailed formatting information is available at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042.
Please use the manuscript templates available online.

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Paper Submission
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All papers must be submitted through the journals Editorial
Manager system: http://mtap.edmgr.com. When uploading your paper,
please choose the article type “SAMT 2010”.

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Important Dates
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Manuscript due:   April 1, 2011
Notification of acceptance:  May 27, 2011
Publication date:  Fall 2011

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Guest Editors
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Prof. Marcin Grzegorzek, Corresponding Editor
University of Siegen, Institute for Vision and Graphics
Research Group for Pattern Recognition
Hoelderlinstr. 3, 57076 Siegen, Germany
Email: marcin.grzegorzek@uni-siegen.de
Phone: +49 271 740 3972
Fax: +49 271 740 1 3972

Thierry Declerck, Senior Consultant
DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab, Saarbrücken, Germany

Michael Granitzer
Scientific Director, Know-Center Graz, Austria
Graz University of Technology, Knowledge Management Institute, Graz, Austria

Massimo Romanelli, Senior Consultant
DFKI GmbH, Intelligent User Interfaces Department, Saarbr ̈cken, Germany
Prof. Stefan Rüger
The Open University, Knowledge Media Institute, Milton Keynes, UK

Michael Sintek, Senior Consultant
DFKI GmbH, Knowledge Management Department, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Received on Thursday, 10 February 2011 13:40:59 UTC