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WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA SEMANTICS In conjunction with SOFSEM 2002, www.sofsem.cz November 28-29, 2002, Milovy, Czech Republic The site of this workshop is a few hours by car from both Prague and Vienna. The best papers from the workshop will appear in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications >From November 24-29, SOFSEM 2002 will have five invited talks on various aspects of multimedia by Sankar Basu (IBM), Alberto del Bimbo (Universita di Firenze), Forouzan Golshani (Arizona State University), Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Turin), and Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Feature-based techniques for content-based retrieval have been studied for quite some time. What is now needed is for researchers to develop approaches to extract semantics from multimedia documents so that retrievals using concept-based queries can be tailored to individualusers. The semantic gap, or, as others put it, the semantic chasm, must be crossed. This workshop will concentrate on techniques to help us do this. The main topics include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive query techniques * Monomedia querying in a multimedia environment * (Semi-)automatic methods for multimedia annotation * Visual ontologies * Dimensional reduction techniques * Intelligent browsing support * Emergent semantics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers - September 20, 2002 Notification of acceptance - October 4, 2002 Camera ready copy due - October 11, 2002 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION Please submit papers not exceeding 10 pages to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The final version should be a camera-ready version in digital format. More information will be sent to authors of accepted papers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIR William I. Grosky Department of Computer and Information Science University of Michigan-Dearborn 4901 Evergreen Road Dearborn, Michigan 48128 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Imran Ahmad, University of Windsor, Canada Tiziana Catarci, Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy S.K. Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Alberto del Bimbo, Universita di Firenze, Italy Chabane Djeraba, Universite de Nantes, France Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, USA Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University, USA Yi Lu Murphey, University of Michigan, USA Daniela Stan, DePaul University, USA Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Rong Zhao, SUNY-Stonybrook, USA |
