Call for Contributions

• Calls for SIGMM Sponsored and Co-sponsored Events
  • International Workshop on Very-Large-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Mining and Retrieval (VLS-MCMR)
  • ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys)
• Calls for Events held in cooperation with SIGMM
  • Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames)
  • International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM)
  • 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
  • Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference (ACE)
  • Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (2010)
• Other multimedia-related Events
  • The 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM)
  • IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL)
  • International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)
  • Multimedia Retrieval Benchmark Evaluation (MediaEval)

SIGMM Sponsored and Co-sponsored Events

International Workshop on Very-Large-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Mining and Retrieval (VLS-MCMR)

Full paper Deadline: July 8, 2010

Event location: Firenze, Italy
Event date: October 29, 2010
URL: http://vls-mcmr10.eurecom.fr/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the construction and analysis of Web Scale multimedia corpus and methodologies to mine and retrieve from them. The Workshop will provide a forum to consolidate key factors related to research on very large scale multimedia dataset such as the construction of dataset, creation of ground truth, sharing and extension of such resources in terms of ground truth, features, algorithms and tools.

ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys)

Full paper Deadline: September 24, 2010

Event location: San Jose, CA, USA
Event date: February 23-25, 2011
URL: http://www.mmsys.org/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The ACM Multimedia Systems conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and scientists to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems is regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, real-time system, and database communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types.

Events held in cooperation with SIGMM

Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames)

Full paper Deadline: July 26, 2010

Event location: Taipei, Taiwan
Event date: November 16-17, 2010
URL: http://netgames2010.ntpu.edu.tw/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

The NetGames workshop brings together researchers and developers from academia and industry to present new research in understanding networked games of today and in enabling the next generation of future networked games. Submissions are sought in any area related to networked games.

International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM)

Full paper Deadline: July 5th, 2010

Event location: Paris, France
Event date: 8-10 November, 2010
URL: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

MoMM2010 is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all mobile computing and multimedia related areas.

26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)

Full paper Deadline: August 24, 2010

Event location: Taichung, Taiwan
Event date: March 21-25, 2011
URL: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

SAC has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world.

Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference (ACE)

Full paper Deadline: July 16, 2010

Event location: Taipei, Taiwan
Event date: November 17-19, 2010
URL: http://www.ace2010.org/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

ACE is naturally a multi-disciplinary conference expected to attract people across a wide spectrum of interests and disciplines including, but not limited to, arts, sociology, anthropology, psychology, marketing, computer science and design. The goal of ACE is to stimulate discussion in the development and advancement of interactive art and entertainment applications.

Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (2010)

Full paper Deadline: July 7, 2010

Event location: Taipei, Taiwan
Event date: December 1-3, 2010
URL: http://irlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/airs2010
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

AIRS aims to bring together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the field of information retrieval. The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video, and multimedia data.

Other multimedia-related Events

The 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM)

Full paper Deadline: July 19, 2010

Event location: Taipei, Taiwan
Event date: January 5-7, 2011
URL: http://mmm2011.org/

The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial track papers reporting real multimedia applications and system development experience.

IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL)

Full paper Deadline: July 26, 2010

Event location: Taichung, Taiwan
Event date: December 13-15, 2010
URL: http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/pub/conferences/mtel-2010/

The topics of MTEL involve techniques from artificial intelligence, computer vision, multimedia, but also human computer interaction, and psychology. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers who are interested in this intersection area between the technological point of view and the human-centered view.

International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS)

Full paper Deadline: July 20, 2010

Event location: Harbin, China
Event date: December 30-31, 2010
URL: http://vilab.hit.edu.cn/~icimcs2010/

ICIMCS will focus on a wide variety of key issues and new approaches, which aim to tackle problems arising from the fast-growing internet multimedia and the users multimedia service requirements.

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

Full paper Deadline: July 12, 2010

Event location: Taichung, Taiwan
Event date: December 13-15, 2010
URL: http://ism2010.asia.edu.tw/

ISM is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing.

Multimedia Retrieval Benchmark Evaluation (MediaEval)

Full paper Deadline: August 16, 2010

Event location: Pisa, Italy
Event date: October 24, 2010
URL: http://www.multimediaeval.org

MediaEval 2010 is a multimedia retrieval benchmark evaluation that was launched in 2008 under the name VideoCLEF. It offers several tasks for retrieval benchmarking, including prediction of user tags, geo-tagging, boredom detection, passage-level video retrieval, a linking task, and allows the presentation of "brave new tasks".