This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2006, held in Athens, Greece in December 2006.The 17 revised full papers presented together with a invited keynote paper were carefully reviewd and selected from 68 submissions. SAMT 2006 targets to narrow the `Semantic Gap', i.e. the large disparity between the low-level de*ors 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 papers address a wide area of integrative research on new knowledge-based forms of digital media systems, semantics and low-level multimedia processing.
Content vs.Contest for Multimedia Semantics:The Case of Sense Cam Image Structuring A Scalable Framework for Multimedia Knowledge Management In Search for Your Own Virtual Individual Enabling Multimedia Metadta Interoperability by Defining Formal Semantics of MPEG-7 Profiles Trend Detection in Folksonomies Personal Semantic Indexation of Images Using Textual Annotations Human Activity Language:Grounding Concepts with a linguistic Framework An Engine for Content-Aware On-Line Video Adaptation Image Clustering Using Multimoda Keywords A Probability-Based Unified 3D Shape Search A Bayesian Network Approach to Multi-feature Based Image Retrieavl Extraction of Motion Activity from Scalable-Coded Video Sequences Image Classification Using an Ant Colony Optimization Approach Ues of Image Regions in Contest-Adaptive Image Classification BPT Enhancement Based on Syntactic and Semantic Criteria Semantic Image Analysis Using a Learning Approach and Spatial Context A Context-Based Region Labeling Approach for Semantic Image Segmentation Automated Speech and Audio Analysis for Semantic Access to Multimedia Author Index