The 2nd international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technologies (SAMT) will be held in Genova from the 5th to the 7th December 2007, at the Jolly Hotel Marina.

In addition to SAMT, the final workshop of the project AIM@SHAPE will take place on the 4th December, at the Area Della Ricerca of the CNR of Genova.

TARGET:
The international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technologies (SAMT) targets to narrow the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The Semantic Gap.

Some of the KEYNOTES:
   ·  A Knowledge Habitat for Multimedia - Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
   ·  Perception-based Algorithms for Multimedia Retrieval - Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
   ·  Integrating knowledge and content processing - Albert Gauthier (INFSO.E2 Knowledge and Content Technologies)
   ·  Multimedia Search: a power broker in the Networked Media Age - Luis Rodriguez-Rosello (INFSO.D2 Networked Media Systems)

For more information, please visit the following website: http://samt2007.ge.imati.cnr.it/