Subject: REMINDER: 1st Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS), Athens, December 6th, 2006 From: Sebastian Stober <stober@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:03:41 +0200[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] This is a friendly reminder that the paper submission deadline for the 1st Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS) is only 3 weeks away: *** AUGUST 30th *** (a Wednesday). --- CALL FOR PAPERS --- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1st Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS) 2006 part of 1st intl. conf. on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT) December 6th, 2006 Athens, Greece http://irgroup.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/lsas2006 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The first international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT) will be held from December 6th-8th in Athens, Greece and targets to narrow the large disparity between the lowlevel 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. In the context of this conference the Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS) focuses especially on researchers that are working on semantics, description, representation and understanding of music with the goal to intensify the exchange of ideas between the different research communities involved, to provide an overview of current activities in this area and to point out connections between them. Therefore, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following aspects with respect to music information retrieval systems: - Audio signal processing and feature extraction - Content-based audio retrieval - Music perception, cognition, affect and emotions - Music structure analysis - Semantic audio description and analysis - Ontologies for music and sound description - Standards for audio content description - Machine learning methods for feature extraction and mapping - Personalization of music retrieval systems While our main focus is on music data, we are also interested on work related to other audio data such as speech. Important dates: Deadline for paper submission: August 30th 2006 Notification of acceptance: September 30th 2006 Camera-ready paper submission: October 20th 2006 Camera-ready workshop notes: December 1st 2006 For the full Call For Papers and further information on the workshop, please visit http://irgroup.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/lsas2006 Information on the SAMT 2006 conference can be found at http://samt2006.org