• Call for papers for ACM MIR 2010
    02/14/2011
    ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval Call for Papers   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 libraries, bio-computing & medical science, the Internet and social networking sites, streaming video, multimedia databases, cultural heritage collections and P2P networks have created a...
  • The SIGMM 2009 elected team
    02/14/2011
    This new team was elected for the next two years Klara Nahrstedt - chair of SIGMM (klara@illinois.edu) Rainer Lienhart - vice chair of SIGMM (Rainer.Lienhart@informatik.uni-augsburg.de) Mohan Kankanhalli - conference chair of SIGMM (mohan@comp.nus.edu.sg)
  • 2009 Call for Nominations of Multimedia Researchers for the SIGMM Award
    02/14/2011
    Deadline for Nominations: June 1, 2009(extended) Submission of Nomination Material to Awards Committee Chair: Nicolas Georganas (georgana@uottawa.ca) 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...
  • Call for Papers for IEEE ICSC2009 (DEADLINE EXTENSION)
    02/14/2011
    FULL PAPER AND DEMO DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 10TH! Call for Papers (DEADLINE EXTENSION) Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing IEEE ICSC2009 September 14th-16th, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation and matching of the semantics of computational content to that of naturally expressed user intentions in order to retrieve, manage, manipulate or even create...
  • ACM Creativity and Cognition 2009
    02/14/2011
    The 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC09) embraces the broad theme of Everyday Creativity. This year the conference will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum (CA, USA), and asks: How do we enable everyone to enjoy their creative potential? How do our creative activities differ? What do they have in common? What languages can we use to talk to each other? How do shared languages support collective action? How can we incubate innovation? ... Read More…
  • Call for papers for ICME 2009 Workshop - Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare
    02/14/2011
    Human health and performance are broad terms that describe the quality of life but are difficult to quantify. Human health can be broadly identified by two components: physical health and mental health. While there is no "official" definition for mental health (considering cultural differences and subjective assessments), physical health is typically attributed to health of various body organs including muscles, bones, and joints. Human performance can be considered as "focused...
  • Top ACM SIGMM downloads
    02/14/2011
    Here we present the top downloaded ACM SIGMM articles from the ACM Portal web-site, from July 2008 to October 2008. We are hoping that, this list gives a much deserved exposure to the ACM SIGMM's best articles. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Berna Erol at berna_erol@rii.ricoh.com, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran at bprabhakaran@utdallas.edu, or Carsten Griwodz at griff@simula.no. Content-based multimedia information retrieval: State of the art...
  • SIGMM Competition for New SIGMM Logo
    02/14/2011
    The SIGMM Executive Committee would like to call the multimedia community to action to participate in the design competition for the new SIGMM Logo. As advertised during the ACM Multimedia 2008 SIGMM Business Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, October 29, 2008, the competition deadline for the new SIGMM Logo is January 15, 2009. The winner of the competition will receive $500 and will be broadly recognized in SIGMM venues such as the SIGMM website, SIGMM Records e-newsletter and at the next ACM...
  • Analytics Overview
    02/14/2011
    Gerald Friedland International Computer Science Institute Berkeley, CA Abstract Even though the mathematical foundations are very similar, in the past, artificial intelligence research seemed to be strictly divided according to the different types of data that were to be analyzed. Therefore many research groups work on either speech processing, computer vision, or video analysis. Only recently trends, such as Semantic Computing, have emerged that try to merge the different research...
  • SIGMM Award 2008 - from Chair of the SIGMM Awards Committee
    02/14/2011
    The 2008 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Professor Ralf Steinmetz from the Technical University Darmstadt in Germany. Professor Steinmetz receives this award "for pioneering work in multimedia communications and the fundamentals of multimedia synchronization". The SIGMM award will be given to Professor Steinmetz at the ACM International...

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