- From: Marcin Grzegorzek <marcin@uni-koblenz.de>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:18:17 +0100
- To: marcin@uni-koblenz.de
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* SAMT 2008 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *
* 3rd International Conference on *
* Semantic And digital Media Technologies *
* Koblenz, Germany, 3-5 December 2008 *
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In cooperation with GI, ACM, IEEE, and Eurographics.
Herewith we would like to encourage you to participate at the
SAMT 2008 conference held in Koblenz on 3-5 December 2008. The
rich technical and social program of this event together with
useful registration information can be found at the conference
web site: http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de . Please register via
https://www.conftool.net/samt2008 .
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Important Dates
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Early registration Nov 7
Late registration Nov 30
On desk registration Dec 2-5
Conference Dec 2-5
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Objectives and Topics
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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 conference series tackles these problems by investigating
the semantics and pragmatics of multimedia generation, management,
and user access. The conference targets 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.
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Invited Speakers
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During the conference two interesting invited talks will be given.
The first one, given by Jane Hunter, Professor of the University
of Queensland, Australia, will be on "Tracking the Progress of
Multimedia Semantics - from MPEG-7 to Web 3.0". This talk will
address the next generation of hybrid scalable classification
systems that combine social tagging, machine-learning and
traditional library classification approaches. The second keynote
talk with the title "Data by the People, for the People" will
be given by Mor Namaan from the Rutgers University School of
Communication, Information and Library Studies, USA.
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Eurotalks
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European Commission Representatives, Albert Gauthier and Luis
Rodriguez-Rosello, have been invited to the conference and will
give the so called Eurotalks. Albert Gauthier works as a Project
Officer at the European Commission in Luxembourg. His team supports
the development of semantic-based and context-aware technologies.
Luis Rodriguez-Rosello heads the Unit "Networked Media Systems".
You can book an appointment for consultation with them writing
an email to Ruth Goetten samt2008@uni-koblenz.de .
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Oral Presentations
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In a highly selective review process, from 52 full paper
submissions 12 have been chosen for oral presentation.
The list of accepted papers can be found under:
http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de/index.php?page=publications
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Posters and Demos
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Altogether 35 posters will be presented at the conference.
Moreover, the K-Space special demo session chaired by
Noel E. O'Connor from the Dublin City University and Thierry
Decklerck from the DFKI Saarbruecken is part of the conference
program. Here, final results of the K-Space project, NoE about
Knowledge Space of Semantic Inference for Automatic Annotation
and Retrieval of Multimedia Content, ending in December 2008
will be presented in form of impressing demos.
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Workshops and Tutorials
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The conference program includes three interesting workshops,
namely
* International Workshop on Interacting with Multimedia Content
in the Social Semantic Web
http://aksw.org/Events/2008/IMCSSW
* Cross-Media Information Analysis, Extraction and Management
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jmag/samt-cross-media-workshop-2008
* Semantic 3D Media
http://www.focusk3d.eu/s-3d
as well as three tutorials, namely
* A Semantic Multimedia Web
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/samt08
* Ontologies and the Semantics of Visualization
http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de/index.php?page=tutorials
* Creating Semantically Rich Virtual Reality Applications.
http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de/index.php?page=tutorials
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Industrial Day
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In addition, an industrial day on semantic technologies in industry
and production chaired by Werner Haas from Joanneum Research in
Graz, Austria, is offered to the conference participants. This
industry day is organized to enable media professionals, content
providers, broadcasters, professional content users, machine vision
experts, and related industrial practitioners to gain first hand
experience of relevant multimedia semantic analysis technologies
and associated commercial applications. We will bring together
the people related to production with those from documentation.
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Events
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There will be a number of social events offered to the participants
during the SAMT 2008 conference. Apart from Mayors reception and
a gala dinner, an excursion to The Bundesarchiv (Federal German
Record Office) will be organized. The Bundesarchiv constitutes
as the archives for the centralized tradition of the history of
the Federal Republic of Germany and its legal and functional
predecessors. Please register soon, as the number of participants
for this excursion is limited to 25 person.
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Venue
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The conference will take place at "Contel Koblenz", a ***
conference hotel at the banks of river Mosel. Please visit:
http://contel-koblenz.de for details.
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Accommodation
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We made a preliminary reservation for you: The "Koblenz Touristik"
offers the service, to arrange your stay in one of three hotels:
* Hotel Hoehmann, close to the main station, rooms with shower,
telephone and TV. Internet without extra costs in the lobby,
7 min by car to the conference hotel, incl. breakfast.
Costs: €49.00 per person and night
* Hotel Scholz, close to the main station, Rooms with shower
and WC, telephone and TV, wireless internet access, 3 min by
car to the conference hotel, incl. breakfast
Costs: €52.00 per person and night
* Hotel Contel, conference hotel: ***+ , rooms with shower and
WC, telephone and TV, wireless internet access. Including
breakfast, restaurant, bar, sauna, good parking site.
Costs: €80 per person and night.
Please express your preferences during the online registration
process.
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Organizing Committee
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General & local chairs:
Dietrich Paulus, Koblenz, DE
Steffen Staab, Koblenz, DE
samt-chairs@uni-koblenz.de
Program chairs:
Lynda Hardman, CWI, NL
Alex Hauptmann, CMU, US
David Duke, Leeds, UK
samt-program-chairs@uni-koblenz.de
Demo & poster chairs:
Michela Spagnuolo, Genova, IT
Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, IE
samt-poster-demo-chairs@uni-koblenz.de
Workshop & tutorial chairs:
Fabio Ciravegna, U. Sheffield, UK
David Duce, Oxford Brookes, UK
samt-workshop-chair@uni-koblenz.de
Publicity chair:
Marcin Grzegorzek, Koblenz, DE
samt-publicity-chair@uni-koblenz.de
Registration chair:
Ruth Götten, Koblenz, DE
samt2008@uni-koblenz.de
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