SAMT 2009 is seeking original high quality contributions (full papers, short papers, workshop and tutorial proposals) addressing innovative research related to the following topics:

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF MULTIMEDIA

* Knowledge assisted multimedia analysis
* Content-based multimedia analysis linked with natural language/speech processing

SEMANTIC RETRIEVAL OF MULTIMEDIA

* Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval
* Semantic retrieval of 3D objects
* Machine Learning and relevance feedback for finding semantics
* Semantic-driven multimedia content adaptation and summarization

SEMANTIC METADATA MANAGEMENT OF MULTIMEDIA

* Metadata management for multimedia
* Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures
* Standards bridging the multimedia and knowledge domains

SEMANTIC USER INTERFACES FOR MULTIMEDIA

* Interfaces and personalization for interaction with large multimedia repositories
* Inference and machine learning for semi-automatic annotation
* Browsing multimedia archives
* Device-specific access to and adaptation of multimedia

SEMANTICS IN VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS

* illustrative depiction and rendering
* mapping meaning to presentation content
* smart virtual environments
* supporting knowledge discovery

APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTIC MULTIMEDIA

* Social multimedia tagging
* Context, user, network and semantics-aware media engineering
* Multimedia mash-ups
* Case studies with clear, innovative lessons learned