http://sigmm.utdallas.edu The site of the ACM SIG Multimedia http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/logo.jpg http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/ http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/ACM%20MM%202010 ACM Multimedia 2010 is the worldwide premier multimedia conference and a key event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products. ACM Multimedia 2010 offers to scientists and practitioners in the area of Multimedia plenary scientific and technical sessions – with keynote speeches, oral, poster and video presentations, technical demonstrations and exhibits -, opportunities for deepenings – organized as discussion rooms, symposiums and tutorials and panels with worldwide recognized scientists and opinion leaders -, and competitions of research teams on relevant and challenging questions about the industry’s two-five years horizon for multimedia. As a companion event, the Interactive Art program will provide the opportunity of interaction between artists and computer scientists and investigation on the application of multimedia technologies to art and cultural heritage. Workshops associated to ACM Multimedia 2010 will provide in-focus forums of discussion on some of the most relevant and timely scientific topics in the field. No publisher susanne ACM Multimedia 2010 is the worldwide premier multimedia conference and a key event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products. ACM Multimedia 2010 offers to scientists and practitioners in the area of Multimedia plenary scientific and technical sessions – with keynote speeches, oral, poster and video presentations, technical demonstrations and exhibits -, opportunities for deepenings – organized as discussion rooms, symposiums and tutorials and panels with worldwide recognized scientists and opinion leaders -, and competitions of research teams on relevant and challenging questions about the industry’s two-five years horizon for multimedia. As a companion event, the Interactive Art program will provide the opportunity of interaction between artists and computer scientists and investigation on the application of multimedia technologies to art and cultural heritage. Workshops associated to ACM Multimedia 2010 will provide in-focus forums of discussion on some of the most relevant and timely scientific topics in the field. 2010-01-09 01:08:27 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/MMSJ_UserCenteredMM_2005 Reaching the individual user with multimedia systems and applications involves far more than merely considering technical user context such as system and network parameters for content delivery, user interfaces, and interaction. In order to provide appealing multimedia experiences, the users' preferences and information needs, their capabilities and interests not only have to be taken into account, but in fact must become the focal point at all layers of multimedia system design. The individual background and context of different users inevitably calls for individual views onto media and user-centered meta data; content retrieval, summarization, and ranking must focus on satisfying the individual user's interest and information need; composition, delivery, and presentation of multimedia content need to be designed to meet user preferences and situation, background and interest, abilities and inabilities, device capabilities, as well as network characteristics; interactive multimedia user interfaces must exploit multimodality to address the current user's (mobile) situation and context; authoring environments must enable user-aware capturing, authoring, and annotation of multimedia content. The theme of this special issue is to explore and bring together a multi-faceted view on user-centered multimedia system and application design. We seek contributions that address key challenges in the incorporation of the user in the design and usage of future multimedia applications and multimedia systems. No publisher sigmmuser Reaching the individual user with multimedia systems and applications involves far more than merely considering technical user context such as system and network parameters for content delivery, user interfaces, and interaction. In order to provide appealing multimedia experiences, the users' preferences and information needs, their capabilities and interests not only have to be taken into account, but in fact must become the focal point at all layers of multimedia system design. The individual background and context of different users inevitably calls for individual views onto media and user-centered meta data; content retrieval, summarization, and ranking must focus on satisfying the individual user's interest and information need; composition, delivery, and presentation of multimedia content need to be designed to meet user preferences and situation, background and interest, abilities and inabilities, device capabilities, as well as network characteristics; interactive multimedia user interfaces must exploit multimodality to address the current user's (mobile) situation and context; authoring environments must enable user-aware capturing, authoring, and annotation of multimedia content. The theme of this special issue is to explore and bring together a multi-faceted view on user-centered multimedia system and application design. We seek contributions that address key challenges in the incorporation of the user in the design and usage of future multimedia applications and multimedia systems. 2005-08-25 17:28:20 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/IEEE-MIRP%202005 The First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2005) will take place in Irvine, California, USA on December 12-14, 2005. The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers and graduate students who need to become acquainted with new theories and technologies in multimedia information processing and retrieval. The workshop will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. IEEE MIPR 2005 will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005). No publisher sigmmuser The First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2005) will take place in Irvine, California, USA on December 12-14, 2005. The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers and graduate students who need to become acquainted with new theories and technologies in multimedia information processing and retrieval. The workshop will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. IEEE MIPR 2005 will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005). 2005-08-25 17:22:56 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/ACMMM2007 ACM Multimedia 2007 invites you to participate in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. No publisher sigmmuser ACM Multimedia 2007 invites you to participate in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. 2006-11-23 22:10:24 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/WMS07 The overall objective of the workshop is to investigate the current practice of multimedia metadata for contextualized ubiquitous, accessible and interoperable services on a higher semantic level, e.g. in collaborative working environments. We concentrate on the development of services and test beds for MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 based services, but also contributions related to other multimedia metadata description standards are welcome. The majority of multimedia metadata description standards in use is based on XML. This has important consequences on the development of services and test beds on the database, the infrastructure and the interface level. We are encouraging especially contributions from interested research groups from the database, the web service and the web 2.0 area. No publisher sigmmuser The overall objective of the workshop is to investigate the current practice of multimedia metadata for contextualized ubiquitous, accessible and interoperable services on a higher semantic level, e.g. in collaborative working environments. We concentrate on the development of services and test beds for MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 based services, but also contributions related to other multimedia metadata description standards are welcome. The majority of multimedia metadata description standards in use is based on XML. This has important consequences on the development of services and test beds on the database, the infrastructure and the interface level. We are encouraging especially contributions from interested research groups from the database, the web service and the web 2.0 area. 2006-11-23 22:25:13 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/griff/MMCN%202006 The objective of this conference is multimedia computing and networking. We look at technologies such as residential broadband networks and digital appliances, multimedia and QoS support for 3G and ad hoc networks, multimedia in P2P environments, sensor networks and grids, power-aware computing and communications, mobile and fixed wireless multimedia networks and content distribution networks. No publisher sigmmuser The objective of this conference is multimedia computing and networking. We look at technologies such as residential broadband networks and digital appliances, multimedia and QoS support for 3G and ad hoc networks, multimedia in P2P environments, sensor networks and grids, power-aware computing and communications, mobile and fixed wireless multimedia networks and content distribution networks. 2005-05-20 12:02:13 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/EI2006 The EI Symposium reflects the rapid evolution in electronic imaging by combining fundamental areas that have been a part of EI from the beginning, with current hot topic areas, and freshly developing trends. This mixture has allowed the symposium to maintain both breadth and depth, while defining the cutting edge of electronic imaging science and technology. No publisher sigmmuser The EI Symposium reflects the rapid evolution in electronic imaging by combining fundamental areas that have been a part of EI from the beginning, with current hot topic areas, and freshly developing trends. This mixture has allowed the symposium to maintain both breadth and depth, while defining the cutting edge of electronic imaging science and technology. 2005-05-24 06:31:34 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/MIR2005 Extending beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-computing & medical science, the Internet, streaming video, databases, cultural heritage collections and peer-2-peer networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techiques on how to browse, search, and summarize multimedia collections. MIR2005 is a peer-reviewed meeting for scientific researchers and users to discuss important challenges in multimedia retrieval. No publisher sigmmuser Extending beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-computing & medical science, the Internet, streaming video, databases, cultural heritage collections and peer-2-peer networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techiques on how to browse, search, and summarize multimedia collections. MIR2005 is a peer-reviewed meeting for scientific researchers and users to discuss important challenges in multimedia retrieval. 2005-05-24 06:40:44 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/MMM2006 MMM2006 will provide a forum to discuss the efficient representation, processing, interaction, integration, communication, and retrieval of multimedia information. In particular, MMM2006 will concentrate on common modelling frameworks for integrating the diverse fields of visual, audio, video, and virtual world information. No publisher sigmmuser MMM2006 will provide a forum to discuss the efficient representation, processing, interaction, integration, communication, and retrieval of multimedia information. In particular, MMM2006 will concentrate on common modelling frameworks for integrating the diverse fields of visual, audio, video, and virtual world information. 2005-05-24 07:00:04 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/SEMPS2006 It is almost 10 years since Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems (IMMPS) were formalised in a Standard Reference Model. Even then, the role of knowledge bases and reasoning was recognised as a vital element for the adaptive and automated production of multimedia presentations. This decade has seen the rise of the Web as a platform for multimedia delivery and of Semantic Web research to enable the expression and manipulation of knowledge over the Web. The goal of this workshop is to explore how Semantic Web technologies can be applied to Multimedia Presentation Systems in order to support Internet-based delivery of user and context personalised, rich media-based Web presentations and new innovative types of online service. No publisher sigmmuser It is almost 10 years since Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems (IMMPS) were formalised in a Standard Reference Model. Even then, the role of knowledge bases and reasoning was recognised as a vital element for the adaptive and automated production of multimedia presentations. This decade has seen the rise of the Web as a platform for multimedia delivery and of Semantic Web research to enable the expression and manipulation of knowledge over the Web. The goal of this workshop is to explore how Semantic Web technologies can be applied to Multimedia Presentation Systems in order to support Internet-based delivery of user and context personalised, rich media-based Web presentations and new innovative types of online service. 2006-09-03 14:30:49 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/WWW2006 WWW2006 brings together the international communities of researchers, developers and business that drive the Web forward, shaping and developing its potential for new areas of communication, research, business and public administration. The fifteenth conference in the series comes to the UK for the first time, and to one of the great historical centres of science and technology. Edinburgh is Scotland's capital city, home to one of the UK's oldest universities, an epicentre of the IT business sector and one of the world's great festival cities. No publisher sigmmuser WWW2006 brings together the international communities of researchers, developers and business that drive the Web forward, shaping and developing its potential for new areas of communication, research, business and public administration. The fifteenth conference in the series comes to the UK for the first time, and to one of the great historical centres of science and technology. Edinburgh is Scotland's capital city, home to one of the UK's oldest universities, an epicentre of the IT business sector and one of the world's great festival cities. 2006-03-29 17:38:09 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/ACM-SEC2006 The intention of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from multimedia security communities (academia and industry) to share a vision of “Multimedia Security and Content Protection in this Rapidly Growing Digital World”. That is, from identifying challenging problems that can shape the future of research, to practical applications and/or research that address issues posed by the convergence of television, computers and the Internet. We welcome papers on applications that combine emerging standards, emerging media formats, innovating solutions, and technologies that enable new markets. This workshop will provide an excellent overview of the relevant research, business, and consumer challenges, as well as the potential impact of emerging optical media formats. We expect to cover multimedia security from the several perspectives: researchers, consumers, and content/service providers. No publisher sigmmuser The intention of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from multimedia security communities (academia and industry) to share a vision of “Multimedia Security and Content Protection in this Rapidly Growing Digital World”. That is, from identifying challenging problems that can shape the future of research, to practical applications and/or research that address issues posed by the convergence of television, computers and the Internet. We welcome papers on applications that combine emerging standards, emerging media formats, innovating solutions, and technologies that enable new markets. This workshop will provide an excellent overview of the relevant research, business, and consumer challenges, as well as the potential impact of emerging optical media formats. We expect to cover multimedia security from the several perspectives: researchers, consumers, and content/service providers. 2006-07-07 11:08:33 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/DMS2006 The DMS conference is an international conference series, which covers a wide spectrum of technique discussions, demonstrations, and student program/paper contests in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. Started in 1994, the series of conference has been held at Hawaii, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Taipei, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, San Francisco, Miami and Canada. This time, the conference will be held at the Grand Canyon Best Western Squire Inn, USA. The theme of DMS'2006 is how to bridge the gap between communication and intelligence. DMS'2006 focuses on techniques, systems, applications, and theories in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials, addressing various aspects of distributed multimedia systems and applications, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. No publisher sigmmuser The DMS conference is an international conference series, which covers a wide spectrum of technique discussions, demonstrations, and student program/paper contests in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. Started in 1994, the series of conference has been held at Hawaii, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Taipei, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, San Francisco, Miami and Canada. This time, the conference will be held at the Grand Canyon Best Western Squire Inn, USA. The theme of DMS'2006 is how to bridge the gap between communication and intelligence. DMS'2006 focuses on techniques, systems, applications, and theories in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. The conference organizers seek contributions of high quality papers, panels or tutorials, addressing various aspects of distributed multimedia systems and applications, for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. 2006-03-29 18:00:49 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/ISM2006 The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006) 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. The technical program of ISM2006 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. No publisher sigmmuser The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006) 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. The technical program of ISM2006 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. 2006-03-29 18:02:58 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/MDM2005 This year the Multimedia Data Mining workshop will bring together a diverse group of academics and industry practitioners in integrated state-of-art analysis of digital media content, multimedia database systems and multimedia data streams. The workshop will address issues specifically related to mining information from multi-modality, multi-source, multi-format data in an integrated way. This workshop also focuses on semantic understanding of multimedia content, and knowledge discovery in other complex data. Many analysis domains collect data from several sources, including static databases, streaming data, web pages, or conditionally collected data. Data appear in multiple forms, including structured, numeric, free text, video, image, speech, or combinations of several types. Analysis in these domains requires combining of techniques and integrating methods. No publisher sigmmuser This year the Multimedia Data Mining workshop will bring together a diverse group of academics and industry practitioners in integrated state-of-art analysis of digital media content, multimedia database systems and multimedia data streams. The workshop will address issues specifically related to mining information from multi-modality, multi-source, multi-format data in an integrated way. This workshop also focuses on semantic understanding of multimedia content, and knowledge discovery in other complex data. Many analysis domains collect data from several sources, including static databases, streaming data, web pages, or conditionally collected data. Data appear in multiple forms, including structured, numeric, free text, video, image, speech, or combinations of several types. Analysis in these domains requires combining of techniques and integrating methods. 2005-05-28 18:22:06 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/MMC2006 The Multimedia Metadata Community aims at bringing together experts from research and industry in the area of multimedia meta data interoperability for collaborative working environments. By establishing a community of professionals it is intended to bridge the gap between an academic research and an industrial scale development of innovative products for natural collaboration, with a strong focus on MPEG-7 & MPEG-21. No publisher sigmmuser The Multimedia Metadata Community aims at bringing together experts from research and industry in the area of multimedia meta data interoperability for collaborative working environments. By establishing a community of professionals it is intended to bridge the gap between an academic research and an industrial scale development of innovative products for natural collaboration, with a strong focus on MPEG-7 & MPEG-21. 2006-05-23 10:46:24 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/ICME07 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo is a major annual international conference with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applicat No publisher sigmmuser IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo is a major annual international conference with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applicat 2006-12-09 10:08:35 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/CIVR07 mage and video storage and retrieval continues to be one of the most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. However, opportunities for the exchange of ideas between different groups of researchers, and between researchers and potential users of image/video retrieval systems, are still limited. The International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) series of conferences was originally set up to illuminate the state of the art in image and video retrieval between researchers and practitioners throughout the world. This conference aims to provide an international forum for the discussion of challenges in the fields of image and video retrieval. No publisher sigmmuser mage and video storage and retrieval continues to be one of the most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. However, opportunities for the exchange of ideas between different groups of researchers, and between researchers and potential users of image/video retrieval systems, are still limited. The International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) series of conferences was originally set up to illuminate the state of the art in image and video retrieval between researchers and practitioners throughout the world. This conference aims to provide an international forum for the discussion of challenges in the fields of image and video retrieval. 2006-12-09 10:08:53 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/MCN07 The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners contributing to all facets of multimedia computing and networking. We especially encourage full and original papers on emerging technologies such as home networking and digital appliances, mixed and augmented reality systems, multimedia and QoS support for WLANs and 3G networks, multimedia in P2P networks, grids, and sensor networks, power-aware computing and communications, mobile and fixed wireless multimedia networks and content distribution networks. No publisher sigmmuser The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners contributing to all facets of multimedia computing and networking. We especially encourage full and original papers on emerging technologies such as home networking and digital appliances, mixed and augmented reality systems, multimedia and QoS support for WLANs and 3G networks, multimedia in P2P networks, grids, and sensor networks, power-aware computing and communications, mobile and fixed wireless multimedia networks and content distribution networks. 2006-12-09 09:54:29 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/DocEng07 The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering is an annual international academic conference devoted to the dissemination of research on models, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. DocEng 2007, the seventh annual meeting, seeks high-quality, original papers and panels that address the theory, design, development, and evaluation of computer systems that support the creation, analysis, distribution and, interaction with documents in any medium. No publisher sigmmuser The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering is an annual international academic conference devoted to the dissemination of research on models, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. DocEng 2007, the seventh annual meeting, seeks high-quality, original papers and panels that address the theory, design, development, and evaluation of computer systems that support the creation, analysis, distribution and, interaction with documents in any medium. 2006-12-09 10:09:22 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/CIVR2006 Image and video retrieval continues to be one of the most exciting and fast-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. However, opportunities for exchanging ideas between researchers and users are still limited. The International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) has taken on the mission of bringing together these communities to allow researchers and practitioners around the world to share points of view on image and video retrieval. A unique feature of the conference is the emphasis on participation from practitioners as well as researchers. The objective is to illuminate critical issues and energize both communities for the continuing exploration of novel directions for image and video retrieval. No publisher sigmmuser Image and video retrieval continues to be one of the most exciting and fast-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. However, opportunities for exchanging ideas between researchers and users are still limited. The International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) has taken on the mission of bringing together these communities to allow researchers and practitioners around the world to share points of view on image and video retrieval. A unique feature of the conference is the emphasis on participation from practitioners as well as researchers. The objective is to illuminate critical issues and energize both communities for the continuing exploration of novel directions for image and video retrieval. 2006-03-29 17:51:47 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/AMR2006 So far, several approaches have been developed that tackle specific problems of the retrieval process, e.g. feature extraction methods for multimedia data, query languages, problem-specific similarity measures and interactive user interfaces. However, in most cases the user still needs several steps in order to find the searched objects. The main reasons for this are on the one hand, the users' difficulty in specifying their interests in the form of a well defined query (which is partially caused by inappropriate user interfaces), on the other hand, the problem of extracting relevant features from the multimedia objects. Furthermore, user specific interests and the search context are usually neglected when objects are retrieved. To improve today's retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of a user, it is necessary to develop intelligent methods that are able to support the user in the search process, e.g. by providing additional user adapted information about the search results as well as the data collection itself and especially by adapting the retrieval tool to the user's needs and interests. No publisher sigmmuser So far, several approaches have been developed that tackle specific problems of the retrieval process, e.g. feature extraction methods for multimedia data, query languages, problem-specific similarity measures and interactive user interfaces. However, in most cases the user still needs several steps in order to find the searched objects. The main reasons for this are on the one hand, the users' difficulty in specifying their interests in the form of a well defined query (which is partially caused by inappropriate user interfaces), on the other hand, the problem of extracting relevant features from the multimedia objects. Furthermore, user specific interests and the search context are usually neglected when objects are retrieved. To improve today's retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of a user, it is necessary to develop intelligent methods that are able to support the user in the search process, e.g. by providing additional user adapted information about the search results as well as the data collection itself and especially by adapting the retrieval tool to the user's needs and interests. 2006-03-29 17:57:19 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/ICDE2007 Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information systems for different computing platforms and application environments. The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering provides a premier forum for sharing and exchanging research and engineering results to problems encountered in today’s information society. No publisher sigmmuser Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information systems for different computing platforms and application environments. The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering provides a premier forum for sharing and exchanging research and engineering results to problems encountered in today’s information society. 2006-03-29 17:58:36 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/SAC2006 Over the past eighteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2006 is primarily sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and other SIGs. For additional information, please check the SAC'06 webpage. The Multimedia &Visualization Track track is devoted to presenting and exploring new advancements in the field of multimedia and visualization systems No publisher sigmmuser Over the past eighteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2006 is primarily sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and other SIGs. For additional information, please check the SAC'06 webpage. The Multimedia &Visualization Track track is devoted to presenting and exploring new advancements in the field of multimedia and visualization systems 2005-06-21 19:15:03 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/NOSSDAV2007 For seventeen years, NOSSDAV has fostered cutting-edge, state-of-the-art research in multimedia and newly emerging areas such as networked games and peer-to-peer streaming. The workshop environment encourages lively discussion among participants and invites strong feedback for work in progress. In 2007, NOSSDAV will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. NOSSDAV invites submissions on all areas of multimedia computing and networking and strongly encourages work in progress in emerging areas. Papers grounded in high quality experimental research based on prototype and real systems are highly valued. No publisher sigmmuser For seventeen years, NOSSDAV has fostered cutting-edge, state-of-the-art research in multimedia and newly emerging areas such as networked games and peer-to-peer streaming. The workshop environment encourages lively discussion among participants and invites strong feedback for work in progress. In 2007, NOSSDAV will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. NOSSDAV invites submissions on all areas of multimedia computing and networking and strongly encourages work in progress in emerging areas. Papers grounded in high quality experimental research based on prototype and real systems are highly valued. 2006-11-23 22:20:11 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/frossard/acm_sigmm_conference_event.2005-12-02.6806462434 MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. No publisher sigmmuser MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. 2005-12-03 08:22:55 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/frossard/acm_sigmm_conference_event.2005-12-02.9098331946 CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special Issue on CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZED WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS Submission deadline: May 15, 2006 Recent advances in wireless and mobile communications provide ample opportunities for introducing new services. Supporting multimedia applications and services over wireless networks is challenging due to constraints and heterogeneities such as limited battery power, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Cross-layer design methodologies hold great promise for addressing these challenges and providing reliable and high-quality end-to-end performance in wireless multimedia communications. This issue solicits the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications and networking. The issue will provide a compelling forum for researchers and practitioners to present their results. Please note that submitted papers must explicitly address cross-layer design issues. No publisher sigmmuser CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special Issue on CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZED WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS Submission deadline: May 15, 2006 Recent advances in wireless and mobile communications provide ample opportunities for introducing new services. Supporting multimedia applications and services over wireless networks is challenging due to constraints and heterogeneities such as limited battery power, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Cross-layer design methodologies hold great promise for addressing these challenges and providing reliable and high-quality end-to-end performance in wireless multimedia communications. This issue solicits the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications and networking. The issue will provide a compelling forum for researchers and practitioners to present their results. Please note that submitted papers must explicitly address cross-layer design issues. 2006-05-04 17:04:21 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/EMME2007 The goal of this workshop is to identify current and evolving trends, specify open problems, and discover challenges and prospects for new research in the broad topic of multimedia-based education. By bringing together researchers working on educational multimedia with multimedia educators, we want to establishan open discussion on these issues and create a reference for future research in this area. No publisher sigmmuser The goal of this workshop is to identify current and evolving trends, specify open problems, and discover challenges and prospects for new research in the broad topic of multimedia-based education. By bringing together researchers working on educational multimedia with multimedia educators, we want to establishan open discussion on these issues and create a reference for future research in this area. 2007-04-10 09:33:45 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/ACMMM2006 Multimedia 2006 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in: (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval; (b) Multimedia networking and systems support; (c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications; and (d) Foundational sciences of multimedia. No publisher sigmmuser Multimedia 2006 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in: (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval; (b) Multimedia networking and systems support; (c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications; and (d) Foundational sciences of multimedia. 2006-03-29 17:38:52 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/WMS06 The WMS06 is the fourth workshop in a series of workshops in multimedia semantics that started in 2002. You are invited to be part of the fourth workshop and to formulate the future research directions in multimedia semantics. You are invited to send a paper and/or a thought-provoking one-page position statement, which should provide a clear statement concerning where the deficits are in current multimedia semantics research, where multimedia semantics research should go, and some multimedia semantics research visions. These position papers will be used to stimulate discussions throughout the entire workshop. No publisher sigmmuser The WMS06 is the fourth workshop in a series of workshops in multimedia semantics that started in 2002. You are invited to be part of the fourth workshop and to formulate the future research directions in multimedia semantics. You are invited to send a paper and/or a thought-provoking one-page position statement, which should provide a clear statement concerning where the deficits are in current multimedia semantics research, where multimedia semantics research should go, and some multimedia semantics research visions. These position papers will be used to stimulate discussions throughout the entire workshop. 2006-03-29 17:44:26 http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Members/susanne/MTEL2006 Due to its potential to make learning easier, more convenient, and more effective, education is one of the preeminent areas of applications for multimedia. With the present amounts of educational data produced, there is a high demand in techniques and methods capable of handling multimedia contents adequately. Educational content has to be presented, deployed, navigated, searched, retrieved, edited, combined, and reused in a proper way. Most of these topics 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. No publisher sigmmuser Due to its potential to make learning easier, more convenient, and more effective, education is one of the preeminent areas of applications for multimedia. With the present amounts of educational data produced, there is a high demand in techniques and methods capable of handling multimedia contents adequately. Educational content has to be presented, deployed, navigated, searched, retrieved, edited, combined, and reused in a proper way. Most of these topics 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. 2006-05-23 10:40:54