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Thursday, May 28, 2009

3rd Workshop on Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics

Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina
San Diego, California, USA
December 14-16, 2009
https://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/ms09/

The 3rd Workshop on Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics will be a one-day
workshop to be held during the IEEE International Symposium on
Multimedia (ISM’09, http://ism2009.eecs.uci.edu/). It will take place in
Dec. 2009 in San Diego, USA.

Objectives
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Information is increasingly becoming ubiquitous and all-pervasive, with
the World-Wide Web as its primary repository. The rapid growth of
information on the Web creates new challenges for information retrieval.
Recently, there has been a growing interest in the investigation and
development of the next generation web – the Semantic Web.

Multimedia information has always been part of the Semantic Web
paradigm, but, in general, has been discussed very simplistically by the
Semantic Web community. We believe that, rather than trying to discover
a media object’s hidden meaning, one should formulate ways of managing
media objects so as to help people make more intelligent use of them.
The relationship between users and media objects should be studied.
Media objects should be interpreted relative to the particular goal or
point-of-view of a particular user at a particular time.

Content-based descriptors are necessary to this process. At the same
time, such descriptions are definitely not sufficient. Context is also
important, and should be managed. The area of emergent multimedia
semantics has been initiated to study the measured interactions between
users and media objects, with the ultimate goal of trying to satisfy the
user community by providing them with the media objects they require,
based on their individual previous media interactions.

The arrival of Web 2.0 has added new paradigms to the media mix. Such
concepts as folksonomies, a form of emergent semantics, introduce a
collaborative, dynamic approach to the generation of ontologies and
media object semantics. That such an approach results in a stable
semantics, though surprising, has been recently demonstrated.

As one can see, the field of multimedia semantics is in great flux at
the present time. Approaches which seek to unify these disparate
disciplines are especially necessary.

This will be a one-day workshop to be held during ISM’09. Besides the
standard research contributions, there will also be a poster session and
a session devoted to the presentation of results from current Ph.D.
students, as well as a keynote talk. Based on last year’s workshop, the
keynote will include discussions of necessary research agendas which
will bring together important subsets of the research communities
working on multimedia semantics, the Semantic Web, and Web 2.0. Best
papers of this workshop will be published in IEEE Multimedia.

List of Topics
==============

We welcome all papers relevant to topics in multimedia semantics,
including those at the confluence of multimedia information management,
the Semantic Web, and Web 2.0, such as,

    * Computational semiotics
    * Conceptual clustering
    * Emergent semantics in the social web
    * Event representation and detection
    * Folksonomies in social media sharing
    * Genre detection
    * Industrial use-cases and applications
    * Intelligent browsing and visualization
    * Media ontology learning
    * Media mining in the social web
    * Modeling and recognition of visual objects and actions
    * Multimedia management and consumption in communities
    * Multimedia extraction and social annotation
    * Multimedia ontologies for the social web
    * Multisensory data integration and fusion for decision making
    * Perception and cognition in the context of Web 2.0
    * Semantic metadata for mobile applications
    * Semantics enabled multimedia applications (including search,
      browsing, retrieval, visualization) for the social web
    * Social networking
    * Spectral methods
    * Standards for the social web
    * User interfaces

Important Dates
===============

    * 11:59 PM EST, July 20, 2009 — Submissions due
    * August 20, 2009 — Acceptance notification
    * September 25, 2009 — Camera-ready papers due

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