3rd International Workshop on Semantic
Learning
and Applications in Multimedia (the new
SLAM)
in association with CVPR 2008
Workshop date
(full-day): 06/27/08
Paper submission:
03/31/08 (note the new date)
Notification of
acceptance: 04/21/08
(decisions available)
Receipt of camera ready
copy: 05/01/08
Workshop date: 06/27/08
The use of semantic knowledge in multimedia is rapidly
becoming more widespread and significant.
In areas such as multimedia content analysis, media integration,
semantic cues and knowledge are being used to achieve performance that is not
attainable by purely bottom-up, data-driven approaches. In many applications, meaningful
multimedia content recognition is not possible without contextual, semantic
support. However, many fundamental
challenges still remain.
This workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary
group of researchers in computer vision, speech/music recognition, knowledge
representation and ontologies, machine learning,
natural language and other areas to examine the issues and recent results in
using semantic knowledge to enhance multimedia. Recent progress in machine learning has
enabled the rigorous management of uncertainty in large-scale
reasoning problems, and this has stimulated the use of semantic
methods and reasoning in multimedia.
Simultaneously, the natural language and artificial intelligence
communities have developed large computational models and databases of semantic
knowledge. The multimedia
communities are using both evidential reasoning methods and semantic knowledge
bases to fuse multiple data sources for intelligent multimedia content
analysis, integration, and delivery.
Papers are solicited in all disciplines related to the
central theme, including but not limited to:
o use of knowledgebases/ontologies
for multimedia problems
o new ontologies for visual
objects, video events, etc.
o new ontologies for audio
objects, audio scenes/events, etc.
o user-centric multimedia ontologies
o unsupervised learning of event ontologies
o automatic multimedia concept detection
o semantic representations of spatio-temporal
data
o context-based recognition
o high-level event recognition
o semantic image, audio, music, and video annotation
o semantic event-based retrieval of audio/music/video
o content-based queries and use cases
o integration of vision and natural language
o learning vs. prior, structured knowledge
o probabilistic models for dynamic systems
o temporal logic in speech and vision
o multi-agent multi-threaded representations
o situational awareness through audio-visual perception
o intelligent media agents and middleware
PROGRAM
The program will emphasize
invited talks from researchers working on multimedia related fields, while
approximately half of the program will consist of open submission papers. In
addition, the program will feature two keynote speeches and one panel
discussion.
ORGANIZATION
General Chairs:
Tom Huang,
Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
Jiebo Luo, Kodak Research Labs
Program Committee:
Kobus Barnard,
Serge Belongie,
UCSD
Matthew Boutell,
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Tat-Seng
Chua, NUS
Daniel Ellis,
Jianping Fan,
Alan Hanjalic,
Anthony Hoogs,
Kitware
Xian-Sheng
Hua, Microsoft Research
Horace Ip,
Svetlana Lazebnik,
UNC
Jim Little, UBC
Christopher Pal,
Nemanja Petrovic, Google, Inc.
Visvanathan Ramesh, Siemens Corporate
Research
Andreas Savakis, Rochester
Institute of Technology
Nicu Sebe,
U
John R. Smith, IBM
Rahul Sukthankar, Intel Research
Qi Tian,
Antonio Torralba,
MIT
George Tzanetakis,
Yi Wu, Intel Research
Dong Xu,
Zhongfei Zhang, SUNY
Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA
PAPER SUBMISSION
In keeping with the spirit of a workshop, submitted
papers may emphasize intellectual risks and argue for ideas that do not yet
have comprehensive experimental support. Hence papers may not need to describe
fully developed algorithms, methods, or results as would normally be required
for acceptance at CVPR.
Papers describing novel, unpublished research are solicited
in the areas listed above and closely related topics. Reviewing will be by
members of the program committee. Each paper will receive at least two reviews.
Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, novelty, and technical
quality. Papers should be at most 8 pages in length, in the same style format as CVPR, and
encoded as pdf. All accepted papers will be included
in the electronic CVPR proceedings.
At the conclusion of the workshop, we will
announce the best paper award. The
best paper selection criteria will include both technical reviews and quality
of oral presentation.
To submit a paper, please go
to EDAS at http://edas.info/papers.php?c=6391 and login into the EDAS using your email
address. If you are the first time user of EDAS, you need register first. After
login, click
the Submit Paper tab on the upper left corner. Search for the SLAM08 in the listing of
conferences and then click the Submit button on the right. If you encounter any
difficulty, please contact Qiang Ji at qji@ecse.rpi.edu