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ACM SIGMM 2024 Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
11/17/2024
The 2024 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Professor Chang-Wen Chen. The award is in recognition of for his outstanding and pioneering contributions in mobile multimedia systems and applications, and continued service and leadership in the multimedia community.
Chang-Wen Chen is a world-leading researcher who has made groundbreaking...
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ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2024
11/17/2024
The winner of the ACM SIGMM Rising Star for 2024 is Dr. Jingjing Chen for her significant contributions in multimedia content analysis and multimedia models.
Dr. Chen is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Fudan University. Her team is focusing on the research and innovation of robust multimedia content analysis, vision and language, and multimodal learning. Prior to joining Fudan University in 2019, she was a Postdoc Research Fellow in...
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SIGMM Thanks Thomas Plagemann for services as Editor-in-Chief of Multimedia Systems Journal and welcomes the appointment of Changsheng Xu
04/08/2020
After 13 years in the role, Thomas Plagemann of the University of Oslo, Norway, has just stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the Multimedia Systems Journal (Springer). Thomas has provided clear and strong leadership and guidance for the journal over more than a dozen years and overseen what is now a rapid turnaround between submission and publication, the introduction of best reviewer and associate editor awards and of course a back catalogue of great papers published across the years.
SIGMM...
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ACM Recognizes 2020 Distinguished Members for Contributions that Propel the Digital Age
12/22/2020
SIGMM is delighted to recognise the elevation of 5 of our present or past SIGMM members to the grade of Distinguished Member, following the announcement by ACM of the addition of 64 Distinguished members at https://www.acm.org/media-center/2020/december/distinguished-members-2020
Congratulations to ...
Sourav S. Bhowmick
Nanyang Technological University
Pablo Cesar
Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica
Minghua Chen
City University of Hong Kong
Peng Cui
Tsinghua University ...
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Invitation to Host ACM Multimedia Asia 2023
04/01/2021
MM Asia Steering Committee
http://www.acmmmasia.org/
The ACM Multimedia Asia (MM Asia) Steering Committee invites prospective parties to submit proposals to host and organize the 5th ACM Multimedia Asia conference in 2023.
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...
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New SIGMM Leadership Announced
06/10/2021
Following election from among the SIGMM membership, the new SIGMM leadership for has just been announced as
Chair - Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze
Vice-Chair - Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University
Director of Conferences - Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
The new leadership replaces Alan Smeaton, Nicu Sebe and Gerald Friedland and takes up their positions on 1 July 2021. We wish them the best of luck in their new roles and continued success for SIGMM...
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ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper award 2021
10/24/2021
In 2020 SIGMM established the SIGMM Test-of-Time Paper award for a paper published 10, 11 or 12 years previously at a SIGMM-sponsored conference, including MM, MMSys, ICMR/CIVR, IH&MMSec, TVX, NOSSDAV, AVI or MIR.
The award recognizes the paper that has had the most impact and influence on the field of Multimedia in terms of research, development, product or ideas, during the intervening years, as selected by a 5-person selection committee.
In 2021, after careful consideration the...
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ACM Multimedia Conferences and TOMM Editorial Award 2021
10/28/2021
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:...
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Call for Papers WebMedia 2022
06/02/2022
WebMedia 2022 https://webmedia.org.br/2022/en/main-track/
2022 Symposium on Multimedia and Web November 7-11 de 2022, Curitiba, Brazil
Important Dates
- Abstract registration: May 30, 2022
- Deadline for article submission: June 9, 2022
The Symposium on Multimedia and Web (WebMedia) is an excellent opportunity for scientific and technical exchange among students, researchers and professionals in the areas of Multimedia, Hypermedia and Web.
The event proceedings will be published in...
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ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2023
11/04/2023
The winner of the SIGMM Rising Star for 2023 is Dr. Chang Xu for his significant contributions in efficient and generative deep representation learning of multimedia data.
Dr. Chang Xu is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of Sydney. He has been honored with the University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Early Career Research. His research interests encompass machine learning algorithms and their applications in computer vision and...
