Recognizes the authors of a paper published either 10, 11 or 12 years previously at an SIGMM sponsored or co-sponsored conference which has had the most impact and influence on the field of Multimedia in terms of research, development, product or ideas. The award includes an honorarium of $1,000 and a certificate.
The 2022 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Professor Alan Smeaton. The award is given in recognition of his outstanding, pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of multimedia information analysis and management, and for outstanding and continued service to the multimedia community.
