Full Papers

Call for Full Papers

The 14th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2006) will be held in Santa Barbara, California, October 22-27, 2006. ACM Multimedia is the premier technical multimedia conference attended by an international community of researchers from both academia and industry.

MM 2006 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theoretical foundations to experimental systems, and servers to networks to devices. MM 2006 seeks high-quality, original papers that will set the standard in the field and stimulate the trends for years to come. We especially encourage introduction of novel media such as haptic, olfactory, multiple sensors, etc.

Note: For papers for the interactive art program (full/short/exhibition) please visit the "Interactive Arts Program" website.

Technical Program

The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in:

  • Multimedia analysis, processing, and retrieval, including multimedia semantics, aesthetics, modeling, assimilation/fusion, audio/video/multi-modal processing, multi-sensor processing, multimedia content description and indexing, multimedia digital rights management (protection and attribution), content-based retrieval with emphasis on multiple and novel media.

  • Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications, including new UI metaphors, usable distributed collaboration, authoring, multi-modal interaction and integration, multimedia in e-learning, entertainment, personal media, assisted living, and virtual environments.

  • Multimedia networking and systems, including context-aware multimedia communications, Internet telephony, peer-to-peer streaming, audio/video streaming, multimedia content distribution, wireless multimedia, adaptive support for scalable media, Internet protocols, multimedia servers, operating systems, middleware and QoS.

The above list is not exhaustive. We encourage submissions in new and emerging areas.  We particularly encourage submissions of paper addressing foundational sciences of multimedia.

Important Dates

1 July

Notification of acceptance

1 August

Camera-ready papers

Submission Systems

The online submission systems for conference papers have already closed. However, the submissions for some workshops are still open (see Workshops page for further information).

Submission Instructions

Prepare a paper (no more than 10 pages) using the ACM template for the conference -- Portable Document Format (PDF) or PostScript (version 2 or later), formatted in two-column conference style. Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.  The names of the violated authors will be shared with other major conferences. 

Please see the ACM proceedings template available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Double-Blind Reviewing

All research papers submitted to MM 2006 will undergo a "double-blind" reviewing process: the program committee members and referees who review the paper will not know the identity of the authors. The double-blind reviewing is applicable for only research papers and is not applicable to other submissions.

For the purpose of double blind review, please remove names of authors and affiliations from the paper heading, and all references to (your own) papers or systems that may reveal your identity.

To ensure anonymity of authorship, authors must prepare their manuscript as follows:

  1. Authors' names and affiliations must not appear on the title page or elsewhere in the paper.

  2. Funding source(s) must not be acknowledged on the title page or elsewhere in the paper.

  3. In place of names of authors and affiliations in the heading, please replace it by the paper id as "Paper xxx". For some references to your own papers, you may want to leave the reference id but remove the details of references by stating: "reference removed for the purpose of anonymous review."

  4. Omit all personal acknowledgements. Research group members or other colleagues or collaborators must not be acknowledged anywhere in the paper. There should also be no acknowledgement section in the paper.

  5. It is strongly suggested that the submitted file is named with the assigned submission number. For example, if assigned paper number is 352, then name your submitted file 352.pdf.

  6. Source file naming must also be done with care. For example, if your name is Jane Smith and you submit a PDF file generated from a .dvi file called Jane-Smith.dvi, one can infer your authorship by looking into the PDF file.

Common sense and careful writing can go a long way toward preserving anonymity without diminishing the quality or impact of a paper. The goal is to preserve anonymity while still allowing the reader to fully grasp the context (related past work, including your own) of the submitted paper. In past years this goal has been achieved successfully by hundreds of papers. If you need specific guidance, please contact the Program Chairs.

It is the responsibility of authors to do their very best to preserve anonymity. Papers that do not follow the guidelines here, or otherwise potentially reveal the identity of the authors, are subject to immediate rejection.

Contacts

For any questions regarding full papers, please email the co-chairs: