Call for Participation

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Understanding and thereby manipulating, multimedia content at the semantic level is the only way towards realizing the full potential of emerging digital media technologies aimed at the delivery of compelling multimedia solutions. The integration of knowledge, semantics and low-level multimedia processing for the purpose of automatic semantics extraction from multimedia content is currently the subject of active research in academia and industry all over the world. The SSMS 2007 summer school, bringing together leading researchers and practitioners, provides postgraduate students the opportunity to gain deeper insight into the challenges related to multimedia semantics and the increasingly emerging applications relying on multimedia understanding, and to familiarize themselves with the diverse disciplines involved.

The Summer School consists of lectures, discussions and interactions with guest lecturers recognised as experts in their fields. Participants will be provided with a copy of all course lectures and access to a PC with all necessary tools and environments pre-installed. Each participant is also required to prepare a poster to present their recent research activities. These will be displayed during the poster sessions (see programme) and should encourage an exchange of ideas and establish new partnerships.

Course Topics
Participation

The application for SSMS is now closed. If you have any questions regarding the registration process, please check out the Registration FAQs.

Important Dates
27 April 2007
— Submission of application (extended deadline)
30 April 2007
— Notification of participation
20 May 2007
— Registration

The registration fee includes accommodation (see Venue), catering Monday-Friday (breakfast, tea/coffee breaks, lunches, light dinners), banquet dinner, stationary and proceedings.

Registration Fees
Student
£250
Academic/Industrial
£250+
 
Please note:
 + does not include accommodation

Before you can register, you first need to submit an application (see above). If you have already applied and have not received a registration form yet, please contact ssms07@dcs.gla.ac.uk.

Poster Competition

Each participant is required to prepare a poster to be presented at the summer school. The topic of the poster should be your current research or new research ideas. The format should be A1portrait. There will be a competition for the best poster! The prize, a 4GB IPod nano, ,is kindly sponsored by Yahoo! Research Barcelona.
In addition, we are preparing an abstract booklet collecting everyone’s contributions. For this we need your (poster) abstract, title, name, organisation, e-mail and url (to your website/project if applicable). The abstract should be no more than 1 page using the LNCS format. The deadline for sending the abstract is *June 15*.

The results of the poster competition and everyone's posters can be found here.

Financial Support for Students

There will be a number of bursaries available to cover part of your expenses to attend SSMS.

BCS-IRSGThe application for the BCS-IRSG grants is now closed!

The BCS-IRSG (Information Retrieval Specialist Group) has kindly offered to sponsor a limited number of bursaries to BCS-IRSG members (you can join at http://irsg.bcs.org/membership.php for free) to participate at SSMS. The bursary will come as a flat fee to cover expenses up to £250.

Financial support is also available to UK-based students sponsored by MMKM. Each grant will come as a flat fee of up to £250. In order to apply for the grant, please indicate your eligibility (full-time UK-based student) on the SSMS application and attach a proof of full-time student status (i.e. a copy of your matriculation card or an e-mail from your supervisor certifying your student status). Together with the notification of participation we will also send a notification whether the grant has been awarded. The deadline for submission is April 27 and we will notify you by April 30.