The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to host and organize the 14th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR2024 (sponsored by the ACM SIGMM).

ACM ICMR is the premier scientific conference for multimedia retrieval.  Its mission is to provide a forum to discuss,  promote and advance the state-of-the-arts in multimedia retrieval by bringing together researchers and practitioners in its related field. It is thus essential to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality research papers and for sharing practitioner experience.

We expect ICMR2024 to be held in the Asia-Pacific region.  The list of previous ICMRs is in the HP at
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MM Asia Steering Committee
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The ACM Multimedia Asia (MM Asia) Steering Committee invites prospective parties to submit proposals to host and organize the sixth ACM Multimedia Asia conference in 2024.

MM Asia is a newly established international conference to showcase the scientific achievements and industrial innovations in the multimedia field. Its mission is to illuminate the state of the art in multimedia computing by bringing together researchers and practitioners in this field. It is essential to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality research papers and for sharing practitioner experience. The past ACM Multimedia Asia conferences were successfully organized in...

In the ACM SIGMM Executive Committee meeting, on Oct 22, we had the bid for the future ACM Multimedia Conferences. The following has been decided:

• ACM MULTIMEDIA 23: Ottawa, General Chairs Abed El Saddik, Rita Cucchiara and Tao Mei
• ACM MULTIMEDIA 24: Melbourne, General Chairs Jianfei Cai, Mohan Kankanhalli, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran and Susanne Boll

The following Awards were assigned in the ACM TOMM Editorial Board Meeting on Oct 22 :

• ACM TOMM Best Associate Editor 2021: Yonggang Wen; Honorable Mention 2021: Cheng-Hsin Hu
• ACM TOMM  2021 NICHOLAS GEORGANAS ACM TOMM Best Paper Award: Silvia Rossi, Cagri Ozcinar, Aljosa Smolic and Laura Toni,  “Do Users Behave Similarly in VR? Investigation of the User Influence on the System Design Share on...

The winner of the SIGMM Rising Star for 2021 is Dr. Jingkuan Song for his significant contributions in Multimedia Compact Representation and Analysis.

Dr Jingkuan Song is Professor with University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He obtained his PhD degree in 2014 from The University of Queensland, Australia. He joined University of Trento as a Research Fellow (2014-2016) and Columbia University as a Postdoc Research Scientist (2016-2017).

His research interest includes large-scale multimedia retrieval, image/video segmentation and image/video understanding using hashing, graph learning and deep learning techniques. He was the winner of the best paper award in ICPR (2016, Mexico), best...

The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EiC. ACM TOMM focuses on all aspects of multimedia computing, communication, and applications. The journal covers four major themes: engaging with multimedia, user experience, multimedia systems, and understanding multimedia content.

Appointed by the ACM Publications Board, EiCs of ACM journals are delegated full responsibility for the editorial management of the journal consistent with the journal's charter and general ACM policies. The Board relies on EiCs to ensure that the content of the journal is of high quality...