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SIGMM Statement on Open Participation
02/01/2018
SIGMM is ACM¹s Special Interest Group on Multimedia supporting the
international community of researchers, practitioners, and students
dedicated to research and development of next-generation technologies
and applications of multimedia. We support the core principle of
inclusion in and open access to international scientific interaction,
and thus endorse the statements issued by ACM regarding Open Conference.
ACM Open Conference Statement
http://www.acm.org/...
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SIGMM Election and Call for Nominations for Student Conference Scholarship
02/01/2018
Dear SIGMMers,
Let us take this chance to wish everyone a healthy and productive new
year in 2017. We also want to provide update on two important upcoming
events.
1. The term of the current volunteer leadership team (including Chair
Shih-Fu Chang, Vice Chair Rainer Lienhart, and Conference Director Nicu
Sebe) will expire this June. ACM office is in the process of preparing
the ballots for election which will take place in early...
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Special Session on Multi-Sensory Experiences at ACM MMSys 2017
04/07/2017
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: February 10, 2017
Acceptance notification: April 14, 2017
Camera ready deadline: April 28, 2017
Scope & Goals:
In all these years, multimedia research and development have succeeded to offer users increasingly diverse services at higher quality levels by engaging two of the human senses only: sight and hearing. However, important findings from psychological and neuroscience research, as well as technological advances...
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Call for Papers: ACM ICMR 2017
04/07/2017
ACM ICMR 2017 is calling for papers presenting significant and
innovative research in multimedia retrieval and related fields.
Important Dates:
Paper submission due: January 27, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2017
Camera-ready papers due: April 26, 2017
Read more...
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SIGMM Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications 2016
08/10/2017
ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present the 2016 SIGMM Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award to Dr. Christoph Kofler. The award committee considers Dr. Kofler’s dissertation entitled “User Intent in Online Video Search” worthy of the recognition as the thesis is the first to innovatively consider a user’s intent in multimedia search yielding significantly improved results in satisfying the information need of the user. The work has high...
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Announcement of ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2016
08/10/2017
The ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present this year’s Rising Star Award in multimedia computing, communications and applications to Dr. Bart Thomee for his significant contributions in the areas of geo-multimedia computing, media evaluation, and open research datasets.
The ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of multimedia computing, communication and applications during...
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ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
08/10/2017
The 2016 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Prof. Dr. Alberto del Bimbo. The award is given in recognition of his outstanding, pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of multimedia processing, multimedia content analysis, and multimedia applications, his leadership in multimedia education, and his outstanding and continued...
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YFCC100M on CACM Cover Page
02/01/2018
Dear Multimedia Researchers,
If you have not seen the cover page article that just appeared in the
Communications of ACM (CACM), I will urge you to take a look.
Thomee, Bart, Benjamin Elizalde, David A. Shamma, Karl Ni, Gerald
Friedland, Douglas Poland, Damian Borth, and Li-Jia Li. "YFCC100M: The
new data in multimedia research." Communications of the ACM 59, no. 2
(2016): 64-73.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/2/197425-yfcc100m/fulltext...
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Call for Papers: ACM ICMR 2016
07/28/2016
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2016 is seeking high quality and original papers.
Important Dates:
Paper submission due: January 29, 2016
Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2016
Camera-ready papers due: April 8, 2016
Read more...
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SIGMM 2015 Year End Update
02/01/2017
Dear Multimedia Colleagues,
I'd like to take this chance to wish everyone a happy holiday season and a wonderful new year in 2016!
2015 has been a fantastic year for SIGMM and the overall multimedia community. Following the action plans set in the 2014 SIGMM Retreat, we move on to implement the T-shaped vision for multimedia emphasizing both the depth and breadth of research underlying a wide range of applications. We are pleased to see our core technical conferences, ACM...
