Organizing Committee

General Chairs
Noboru Babaguchi (Osaka Univ., JP)
Kiyoharu Aizawa (The Univ. of Tokyo, JP)
John Smith (IBM, US)

Technical Program Chairs
Shin’ichi Satoh (National Inst. of Informatics, JP)
Thomas Plagemann (Univ. of Oslo, NO)
Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft, US)
Rong Yan (Facebook, US)

Local Arrangement Chairs
Tomio Echigo (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., JP)
Naoko Nitta (Osaka Univ., JP)

Twentieth Anniversary Liasion
Ramesh Jain (Univ. of California at Irvine, US)
Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research, US)

Panels Chairs
Yong Rui (Microsoft Research, CN)
Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia Univ., US)

Brave New Ideas Program Chairs
Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo! Research, ES)
Tat-Seng Chua (National Univ. of Singapore, SG)

Multimedia Grand Challenge Chairs
Marcel Worring (Univ. of Amsterdam, NL)
Yushi Jing (Google Research, US)
Go Irie (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., JP)

Multimedia Art Program Chairs
Tomoe Moriyama (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, JP)
Hideyuki Ando (Osaka Univ., JP)
Aisling Kelliher (Arizona State Univ., US)
David A. Shamma (Yahoo! Research, US)

Technical Demonstration Chairs
Qi Tian (Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, US)
Hirokazu Kato (Nara Inst. of Science & Technology, JP)

Open Source Software Competition Chairs
Daniel Gatica Perez (IDIAP Research Inst., CH)
Masanori Sano (Japan Broadcasting Corp., JP)

Video Program Chairs
Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia, CN)
Koichi Shinoda (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, JP)

Doctoral Symposium Chairs
Chong-Wah Ngo (City Univ. of Hong Kong, HK)
Keiji Yanai (The Univ. of Electro-Communications, JP)

Tutorials Chairs
Susanne Boll (Univ. of Oldenburg, DE)
Changsheng Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN)

Workshop Chairs
Jiebo Luo (Univ. of Rochester, US)
Svetha Venkatesh (Deakin Univ., AU)

Industrial Liaison
Minoru Etoh (NTT Docomo, JP)
Yoichiro Miyake (Square Enix, JP)

Web & Social Media Chairs
Ichiro Ide (Nagoya Univ., JP)
Ikki Ohmukai (National Inst. of Informatics, JP)
Duy-Dinh Le (National Inst. of Informatics, JP)
Takatsugu Hirayama (Nagoya Univ., JP)

Publicity Chairs
K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State Univ., US)
Michael S. Lew (Leiden Univ., NL)
Mark Liao (Academia Sinica, TW)
Yong Man Ro (Korea Advanced Inst. of Science & Technology, KR)

Finance Chair
Shigeyuki Sakazawa (KDDI R&D Labs., JP)

History Preservation Chairs
Alberto del Bimbo (Univ. of Firenze, IT)
Sethuraman Panchanathan (Arizona State Univ., US)

Publication Chairs
Hiroshi Mo (National Inst. of Informatics, JP)
Chamin Morikawa (The Univ. of Tokyo, JP)

SIGMM Chair
Klara Nahrstedt (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

SIGMM Director of Conferences
Mohan S. Kankanhalli (National Univ. of Singapore, SG)