• SIGMM Award 2010
    09/16/2011
    The 2010 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Dr. Ramesh Jain. Dr Jain is currently the Donald Bren Professor in Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. The ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions over a researcher’s career, cited Dr. Jain’s "...
  • 2010 SIGMM Best PhD thesis award
    05/22/2012
    The 2010 winner of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Effrosyni Kokiopoulou (http://www.math.ethz.ch/~kokiopoe/). Dr. Kokiopoulou receives the award for her thesis - Geometry-Aware Analysis of High-Dimensional Visual Information Sets ? that she has done at the Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS4), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr....
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2011)
    09/16/2011
    The First ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2011), puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR. It is the ideal forum to present and encounter the most recent developments and applications in the area of multimedia content retrieval. Originally set up to illuminate the state-of-the-art in image and video retrieval, ICMR aims at becoming the world reference event in this exciting field of research, where researchers and practitioners can...
  • ICDSC 2010 - call for participation
    02/14/2011
    ICDSC 2010 is taking place in Atlanta, GA, USA on August 31st - September, 4th 2010. The conference offers insight into the potentials and challenges of distributed vision networks and presentation of design methodologies employed by leading research groups working in these areas are also the objectives of the conference. Registration and housing are open. http://www.icdsc.org
  • ACM SIGMM is Sad to Announce the Loss of Nicolas Georganas, distinguished professor and researcher
    05/22/2012
    We are saddened by the passing of Nicolas D. Georganas, distinguished professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) and founding dean of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Engineering. Nicolas was one of today's leading researchers in information technology, particularly multimedia systems. His work on performance design and analysis of computer-communication networks, dynamic/hybrid channel assignment in mobile cellular networks and...
  • Call For Papers for ACM MMSys 2011
    03/30/2011
    Call For Papers ACM Multimedia Systems 2011 February 23-25, 2011 San Jose, California www.mmsys.org Important Dates: * September 24, 2010: Submission Deadline * November 9, 2010: Notification Date We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2nd ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) Conference to be held Feb. 23-25, 2011 in San Jose, California, USA. The ACM Multimedia Systems conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and scientists to present and...
  • SIGMM Technical Achievement Award
    02/14/2011
    Award Description This award is presented every year to a researcher who has made significant and lasting contributions to multimedia computing, communication and applications. Outstanding technical contributions through research and practice is recognized. Towards this goal, contributions are considered from academia and industry that focus on major advances in multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia network protocols and services, and multimedia...
  • Call for Bids: ACM Multimedia 2012 and 2013
    03/30/2011
    The ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia is inviting for bids for holding its flagship "ACM International Conference on Multimedia". It was decided in the SIGMM Business Meeting held during ACM MM 2009, that the conference will adopt a 3-year cycle for conference organization and in order to facilitate that, bids are invited for: (1) ACM Multimedia 2012 in Asia (2) ACM Multimedia 2013 in Europe please visit the following website: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~mohan/bid.txt...
  • IEEE 2010 SSSC Call for Application
    02/14/2011
    co-sponsored by IEEE, Institute of Semantic Computing and STI International Semantic Computing is currently emerging as a new field that integrates methods from multimedia (computer vision, speech processing), natural language processing, semantic web and ontology engineering, software engineering, and other fields with the goal of creating new applications that connect intuitively formulated user-intentions with the content of data. The summer school will provide an introduction to the...
  • ACM MIR-2010 Call for Participation
    02/14/2011
    ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2010) ACM MIR-2010 Call for Participation Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA March 29-31, 2010 Call for Participation Early registration period finishes February 5th 2010 Multimedia information retrieval is a cross-cutting field. Extending beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital...

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