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.

This year the selection committee was:

• Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
• Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, US
• Shin’ichi Satoh, NII Japan, General Co-Chair, ACM MULTMEDIA 2022
• Laura Toni, UCL, UK, Technical Program Co-Chair, ACM MULTMEDIA 2022

Overall Winner and Winner in the Category “Multimedia Analysis, Retrieval, Query"

• Jana Machajdik and Allan Hanbury. Affective image classification using features inspired by psychology and art theory. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, page 83-92, 2010.
• Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1873951.1873965

Honorable Mentions:

In the category of “Multimedia Systems- Networks”

• Saamer Akhshabi, Ali Begen, and Constantine Dovrolis. An experimental evaluation of rate-adaptation algorithms in adaptive streaming over http. In Proceedings of the 2nd Annual ACM Conference on Multimedia Systems, MMSys, page 157-168, 2011.
• Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1943552.1943574

In the category of “Multimedia Security and Privacy”

• Mauro Barni, Tiziano Bianchi, Dario Catalano, Mario Di Raimondo, Ruggero Donida Labati, Pierluigi Failla, Dario Fiore, Riccardo Lazzeretti, Vincenzo Piuri, Fabio Scotti, and Alessandro Piva. Privacy-preserving fingercode authentication. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security, MM&Sec, page 231-240, 2010.
• Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1854229.1854270

In the category of “Multimedia Interfaces and Applications”

• Jörg Müller, Florian Alt, Daniel Michelis, and Albrecht Schmidt. Requirements and design space for interactive public displays. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, page 1285-1294, 2010.
• Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1873951.1874203