News
Announcements and background on SAMT 2006 and the semantics of digital media. For the dated conference milestones, see the Important News panel.
- Athens in December: A Practical Guide for DelegatesBeyond the programme, a few practical notes on the host city and the conference hotel for those travelling to SAMT 2006.
- Reading the Odds: How Probabilistic Models Turn Signals into DecisionsA guest note on a theme that echoes through the conference: when the evidence is noisy and incomplete, good systems reason in probabilities rather than certainties.
- Three Tutorials, One Theme: Bridging Features and SemanticsThe SAMT 2006 tutorial track approaches the semantic gap from three directions - imagery, language and video - but the underlying question is the same.
- From MPEG-7 to Meaning: Multimedia Ontologies on the AgendaA recurring thread in the SAMT 2006 programme is interoperability: how to make the descriptions attached to media mean the same thing across tools, formats and institutions.
- Minding the Semantic Gap: What SAMT 2006 Is AboutThe first SAMT conference grows out of the EWIMT workshops with one organising idea: narrowing the distance between what a machine measures in a media file and what a person means by it.