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:
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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:
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Authors' names and affiliations must not
appear on the title page or elsewhere in the paper.
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Funding source(s) must not be acknowledged
on the title page or elsewhere in the paper.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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: