• Call for Bids - ACM MM 2018 in Asia
    09/08/2015
    The ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia is inviting for bids for holding its flagship "ACM International Conference on Multimedia". The bids are invited for holding the 2018 conference in Asia.   The details of the two required bid documents, evaluation procedure and deadlines are given here:   http://disi.unitn.it/~sebe/ACMMM2018-bid.htm   The bids are due on September 1, 2015.   The interested parties are encouraged to contact me before...
  • Call for Nominations for three major awards in 2015
    09/08/2015
    * SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Submission Deadline: May 31, 2015 sigmm.org/Awards/award_taa   * SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Submission Deadline: May 31, 2015 sigmm.org/Awards/thesisaward   * SIGMM Rising Star Award Submission Deadline: June 15, 2015 sigmm.org/Awards/risingstaraward     Read more...
  • ACM TOMM - Call for Special Issue Proposals
    09/08/2015
    ACM TOMM is one of the world's leading journals on multimedia. As in previous years, we are planning to publish a special issue (SI) in 2016. Proposals are accepted until May, 1st 2015. Each special issue is in the responsibility of the guest editors. If you wish to guest edit a special issue, you should prepare a proposal as outlined below, then send this via e-mail to the Senior Associate Editor (SAE) for Special Issue Management of TOMM, Shervin Shirmohammadi shervin@ieee.org  ...
  • ACM TOMM Call for Nominations - Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award
    09/08/2015
    Information For Contributors   The Editor-in-Chief of ACM TOMM invites you to nominate candidates for the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper.    The award is given annually to the author(s) of an outstanding paper published in print in ACM TOMM within the previous legal year from January 1 until December 31. The award carries a plaque as well as travel funds to the ACM MM conference where the awardee...
  • ACM SIGMM/TOMM 2014 Award Announcements
    09/08/2015
    The ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMM) and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) are pleased to announce the following awards for 2014 recognizing outstanding achievements and services made in the multimedia community. SIGMM Technical Achievement Award: Dr. Klara Nahrstedt SIGMM Rising Star Award: Dr. Meng Wang SIGMM Best Ph.D. Thesis Award: Dr. Zhigang Ma TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award: "A Framework...
  • SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
    09/08/2015
    The 2014 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. Klara Nahrstedt. Klara Nahrstedt is a leading researcher in multimedia systems. She has made seminal contributions in QoS management for distributed multimedia systems. Her pioneering work on QoS brokerage with QoS translation, QoS negotiation and QoS adaptation services set between...
  • Announcement of ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2014
    09/08/2015
    ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present the SIGMM Rising Star Award in its inaugural year to Dr. Meng Wang. This new award of ACM SIGMM recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of multimedia computing, communication and applications during the early part of his or her career. Dr. Meng Wang has made such significant contributions in the areas of media tagging and tag processing as well as multimedia...
  • Announcement of SIGMM Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award 2014
    09/08/2015
    Announcement of SIGMM Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award 2014 ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present the 2014 SIGMM Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award to Dr. Zhigang Ma. The award committee considered Dr. Ma’s dissertation entitled “From Concepts to Events: A Progressive Process for Multimedia Content Analysis” worthy of the recognition as the proposed framework based on mathematical theories has great potential for developing real-world...
  • TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award 2014
    09/08/2015
    Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award The ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), 2014 The 2014 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award is provided to the paper A framework for network aware caching for video on demand systems (TOMM vol. 9, Issue 4) by Bogdan Carbunar, Rahul Potharaju, Michael Pearce, Venugopal Vasudevan and Michael Needham.   The purpose of the...
  • Best Associate Editor Award, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), 2014
    09/08/2015
    Annually, the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) honors one member of the Editorial Board with the TOMM Associate Editor of the Year Award. The purpose of the award is to recognize the excellent work for ACM TOMM and hence also for the whole multimedia community in the previous year. Criteria for the award are (1) the amount of submissions processed in time, (2) the performance during the reviewing process, and (3) the accurate interaction with...