Brave New Topics Program

The 17th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM'09) will be held in Beijing, China from October 19-23, 2009. ACM Multimedia is the premier technical multimedia conference attended by an international community of researchers from both academia and industry. ACM Multimedia 2009 is seeking to extend the boundaries of multimedia research presented at the conference by soliciting proposals for its Brave New Topics(BNT) sessions.

Call for BNT Papers (Expired)

ACM MM2009 Call for BNT Papers can be found HERE.

Camera-ready Submission Instruction (Expired)

All ACM sponsored proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library as well as prepared for printed publication. All papers for the conference must be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to ACM specifications. Your electronic submission is due on or before the morning of July 27th (11:00 AM EST, NY time).  Please submit as early as possible if you are able to do so. For more details about the camera-ready paper instruction, please refer to the following site: http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/mm.htm

Program

Brave New Topic Session: "Non-Conventional Media Interaction Paradigms"

Session Chairs:
Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia University, USA)
Lexing Xie (IBM Research, USA)

Time:
Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 16:15-17:45

Location:
Jewel Room

Presentations:

1. Beyond-Flat Surface Computing: Challenges of Depth-Aware and Curved Interfaces
   Author:
   - Hrvoje Benko, Microsoft Research
   
   Contact: benko@microsoft.com
   
   
2. Brain State Decoding for Rapid Image Retrieval
   Authors:
   - Jun Wang (Columbia University, US)
   - Eric Pohlmeyer (Columbia University, US)
   - Barbara Hanna (Meridian Vision, US)
   - Yu-Gang Jiang (Columbia University, US)
   - Paul Sajda (Columbia University, US)
   - Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia University, US)
   
   Contact: Jun Wang, Columbia University (jwang@ee.columbia.edu)

Panel: Non-Conventional Media Interaction Paradigms

Panelists:

1. Hrvoje Benko, Microsoft Research
2. Paul Sajda, Professor and Director, Laboratory for Intelligent Imaging and Neural Computing, Columbia University
3. Kiyoharu Aizawa, Professor, Tokyo University
4. Michelle Zhou, Research Senior Manager, IBM China Research

Contacts

For any questions regarding the BNT papers or sessions, please email the co-chairs:

Dick Bulterman (CWI & VU, Amsterdam)

Mohan Kankanhalli (National University, Singapore)