OMIR 2010 - OMIR-2010: International Workshop on Ontologies for Multimedia Interpretation and Retrieval

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Deadline: October 01, 2010 | Date: December 01, 2010-December 03, 2010

Venue/Country: Saarbruecken, Germany

Updated: 2010-09-21 11:32:58 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

International Workshop on

Ontologies for Multimedia Interpretation and Retrieval

1-3 December, 2010

Saarbruecken, Germany

Collocated with SAMT-2010: the 5th International Conference on Semantic

and Digital Media Technologies || http://www.samt2010.org/

Invited Speakers:

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Yiannis Kompadsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute,

Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece

Cees Snoek (to be confirmed), Intelligent Systems Lab, University of

Amsterdam, Netherlands

One of the challenging issues in the field of multimedia analysis is to

extract high-level semantics from a document. As opposed to the domain of

analysis and indexing of textual documents, the visual domain has to face

the important challenge of matching human interpretations of image

information with the numerical image signature derivable by a computer,

defined as the semantic gap problem. Bridging the semantic gap has spurred

continued interest recently, in particular concerning the explicit

representations of a priori knowledge. In many domains, ontologies are

gradually being accepted as the key technology to describe the semantics

of information. In the multimedia domain, they have shown to be a

promising solution for making semantics explicit.

As a consequence, many multimedia ontologies have been built either to

assist multimedia search and retrieval or to navigate in large multimedia

collections. These ontologies are usually only hierarchically structured

multimedia concept lexicons (or thesauri), rarely used as formal models

that support different kinds of reasoning (through description logics) or

engineering operations (ontology building, ontology matching, ontology

evolution and dynamics, modularization, etc.). Although an integral part

of other research fields, such as text analysis, the full exploitation of

ontologies for multimedia analysis is still largely unexplored.

The goal of this workshop is to gather three communities of researchers

working in close, yet quite disconnected areas, related to semantic image

interpretation: i) Image annotation and retrieval, ii) knowledge-based

image analysis and iii) ontological engineering and reasoning including

fundamental work on description logics or conceptual graphs.

Topics of Interest:

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? Representations and merging of cross-media semantics;

? Common ontologies and knowledge-based models for image (multimedia)

analysis;

? Ontology-based image annotation;

? (Multimedia) Ontology management:

? development,

? integration,

? matching,

? maintenance,

? modularization,

? and evolution;

? Description logics for multimedia representation and analysis;

? Standard and non-standard semantic reasoning for image (multimedia)

analysis;

? Image semantics ground truth databases;

? Multimodal representations of multimedia content;

? Machine learning approaches for the linguistic description of visual

content;

? Contextual knowledge modeling for image annotation including folksonomies.

Submission Guidelines:

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* Long Papers (up to 12 pages)

* Short Papers (up to 8 pages)

Submissions should be formatted to LNCS style and submitted as PDF files.

The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop

Proceedings. Selected papers will form the basis of a special issue of the

journal “Applied Ontology”.

Please, send submissions to the workshop directly to the workshop chairs

using the following emails:

* celine.hudelotecp.fr

* ktodorovuos.de

* herve.le-borgnecea.fr

Important Dates:

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* October 1 2010 - Papers Submission Deadline

* November 1 2010 - Authors Notification of Acceptance

* November 10 2010 - Camera-Ready Versions Submission Deadline

* December 1-3 2010 ? OMIR 2010