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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Yannis Avrithis Yiannis Kompatsiaris Steffen Staab Noel E. O’Connor (Eds.)

Semantic Multimedia First International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2006 Athens, Greece, December 6-8, 2006 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Yannis Avrithis Image, Video & Multimedia Systems Laboratory School of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens 9, Iroon, Polytechniou Str., 15773 Zographou, Athens, Greece E-mail: [email protected] Yiannis Kompatsiaris Informatics and Telematics Institute Centre for Research and Technology Hellas 6th Km Thessaloniki-Thermi Road, 57001 Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece E-mail: [email protected] Steffen Staab University of Koblenz-Landau Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56016 Koblenz, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Noel E. O’Connor Centre for Digital Video Processing Dublin City University Collins Avenue, Dublin 9, Ireland E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2006936895 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.5.1, H.4, H.5, I.2.10, I.4, I.7, C.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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We are delighted to welcome you to the proceedings of the 1st Internati