SAMT 2009: Call for Participation - EARLY REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO NOV. 8

Call for Participation

SAMT 2009
4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies
2-4 December 2009
Graz, Austria

EARLY REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO November 8th -

Register at http://www.samt2009.org/registration

Please also note that the block reservation at the conference hotel expires next week, we cannot guarantee rooms at the conference rate after that.

The 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2009) targets at narrowing 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.

The preliminary program of SAMT 2009 can be found at http://www.samt2009.org/program Next to the full and short papers of the main conference SAMT offers:

* Keynotes

- Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo! Research Barcelona

- Stefan Rüger, Open University

* Industry day with presentations about how semantic multimedia technologies are put into practice

* Tutorials

- Web of Data in the Context of Multimedia
Bernhard Haslhofer, Bernhard Schandl, Andreas Langegger, Wolfgang Halb and Tobias Buerger

- MPEG Metadata for Context-Aware Multimedia Applications
Christian Timmerer and Mathias Lux

- A Semantic Multimedia Web: Create, Annotate, Present and Share your Media
Lynda Hardman and Raphaël Troncy

* Workshops

- Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies
http://semudate2009.fim.uni-passau.de/

- 3rd Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals
http://lsas2009.dke-research.de/

We hope to see you in Graz!