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Description

One value of ontologies is that they represent a shared understanding of a certain domain. Ontologies are increasingly being used in multimedia systems as researchers seek to bridge the “semantic gap” between the low level features of media content and its high level conceptual meaning. However, projects and researchers are often working on their own ontological representations tuned to their particular needs. Many applications that process multimedia assets make use of some form of metadata that describe the multimedia content. Machine understanding of metadata coming from different applications is a basic requirement, but often a critical problem, due to the lack of interoperability of distributed multimedia systems.

This workshop will bring semantic multimedia researchers together to identify commonalities and agree on a shared or aligned knowledge representation for multimedia content and processes.

Topics of Interest

We welcome all submissions from researchers working on systems, tools and methodologies which aim to support the semantic-enabled analysis, representation, adaptation, retrieval and presentation of multimedia content.


Submissions are welcome with any of the following topics:

Aims of the Workshop

The workshop aims to bring together leading researchers working with multimedia ontologies to solve a range of important tasks: multimedia analysis, representation, retrieval, adaptation and presentation.

This workshop is the next activity in the initiative for a Common Multimedia Ontology Framework, see http://www.acemedia.org/aceMedia/reference/multimedia_ontology. A first document on the requirements for such a framework can be found there, including suggestions for harmonization approaches.

It also aims to generate input for a future continuation of the W3C Multimedia Semantics XG. This group has previously studied, through various use cases, how the interoperability problems between various multimedia metadata standards can be solved, for images [1], or for other media types [2] as well as which conversions of existing standards, such as MPEG-7, into OWL/RDF already exist [3].

Following individual presentations, sufficient time will be planned for discussion and small group work on the topic of a common multimedia ontology framework. Finally, a feedback session and a panel-moderated discussion will serve to achieve conclusions and next steps in multimedia ontology use and harmonization.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-image-annotation/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-interoperability/
[3] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-vocabularies/

Important Dates

Submission

We welcome submissions of up to 15 pages in length. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. Additionally, some submissions may be accepted as posters.

Submissions should be formatted in Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted in PDF format.

The submission site can be reached through the workshop webpage http://mkg.iti.gr/mareso/submission

Please note that at least one author of an accepted paper must register for the SAMT 2007 conference.

Program Committee

Organizing Committee

Sponsors

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