CALL FOR PAPERS
1st Int. Workshop on Shapes and Semantics

This workshop aims at providing a forum for the dissemination of new and emerging fields engaged in the integration of Multidimensional Media with Knowledge and Content processing technologies. Focus of this first event will be on the dissemination of the most relevant results of projects funded by the European Commission and targeted at bridging the gap between semantics and digital media systems. The workshop offers an opportunty to projects, institutions and individuals to present ongoing research to industrial representatives and development engineers who could exploit the technology emerging from the projects. 

The workshop is organized in two plenary tracks of presentations, the first aimed at presenting scientific and technological results of the AIM@SHAPE project, and the second aimed at providing an overview of the relevant projects, research results, open issues and emerging challenges in this research area. The workshop will also include key-notes and/or industrial panels.

The event is supported by the EU IST project AIM@SHAPE and will be held at the Taikan-So Hotel in the wonderful area of Matsushima, Japan.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS. 	Bianca Falcidieno, IMATI-CNR, Italy
				Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
				Issei Fujishiro, Tohoku University, Japan

Prospective contributors are invited to submit extended abstracts   (max 4 A4 pages) by email at the address shapesem@ge.imati.cnr.it. 

CONFERENCE TOPICS. Topics include, but are not  limited to:
        •	Shape perception, classification and annotation 
        •	Shape semantics and ontologies
        •	Shape matching and retrieval
•	Knowledge driven multimedia content analysis and understanding
        •	Intelligent media creation and processing tools
        •	Knowledge based inference for semantic media annotation

The contributions will be reviewed by the scientific committee and the accepted ones will be presented during the Workshop and they will be invited as full papers for a special issue of an international journal after the Workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES.
	15 April 2006 		Submission of extended summary
	13 May	2006	 	Notification of acceptance
	31 May 2006	 	Camera-ready contributions

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
URL:  http://www.aimatshape.net/event/shapes-and-semantics
E-mail : shapesem@ge.imati.cnr.it