• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Special Issue: 20th Anniversary of ACM International Conference on Multimedia
    12/24/2015
    Download http://tomccap.acm.org/SI20yearsACMMM.html The ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) celebrated the 20th anniversary of the establishment of its premier conference, the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia) in 2012. To commemorate this milestone, leading researchers organized and extensively contributed to the 20th anniversary celebration. This special issue of the ACM Transaction on Multimedia Computing, Communication and Applications (TOMCCAP)...
  • Chair's message
    10/19/2017
    Welcome to ACM SIGMM! SIGMM is ACM’s Special Interest Group on Multimedia – the community of researchers and practitioners dedicated to building next-generation technologies and applications around multimedia. We host several vibrant premiere conferences including ACM Multimedia (currently in its 21st anniversary with 600+ participants annually), ICMR on multimedia retrieval, and MMSys on multimedia systems. The community also takes pride in its publications including the...
  • ACM SIGMM/TOMCCAP 2013 Award Announcements
    05/09/2014
    The ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMM) and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP) are pleased to announce the following awards for 2013 recognizing outstanding achievements and services made in the multimedia community. SIGMM Technical Achievement Award: Dr. Dick Bulterman SIGMM Best Ph.D. Thesis Award: Dr. Xirong Li TOMCCAP Nicolas D. GeorganasBest Paper Award: "Exploring interest correlation for peer-to-peer socialized...
  • SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
    01/08/2014
    The 2013 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. Dick Bulterman. He is currently a Research Group Head of the Distributed and Interactive Systems at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is also a Full Professor of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His research interests are multimedia...
  • SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications 2013
    01/08/2014
    The SIGMM Ph.D. Thesis Award Committee is pleased to recommend this year's award for the outstanding Ph.D. thesis in multimedia computing, communications and applications to Dr. Xirong Li. The committee considered Dr. Li's dissertation titled "Content-based visual search learned from social media" as worthy of the award as it substantially extends the boundaries for developing content-based multimedia indexing and retrieval solutions. In particular, it provides fresh new...
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP) Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award
    01/08/2014
    The 2013 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP) Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award is provided to the paper Exploring interest correlation for peer-to-peer socialized video sharing (TOMCCAP vol. 8, Issue 1) by Xu Cheng and Jiangchuan Liu. The purpose of the named award is to recognize the most significant work in ACM TOMCCAP in a given calendar year. The whole readership of ACM TOMCCAP was invited to nominate articles which were published in...
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Best Associate Editor Award
    01/08/2014
    Annually, the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP) honors one member of the Editorial Board with the TOMCCAP Associate Editor of the Year Award. The purpose of the award is the distinction of excellent work for ACM TOMCCAP 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 (...
  • SIGMM Conferences and Journals Ranked High by Chinese Computing Federation (CCF)
    05/22/2014
    The Chinese Computing Federation (CCF) Ranking List provides a ranking of peer-reviewed conferences and journals in the broad area of computer science. This list is typically consulted by most academic institutions in China as a quality metric for PhD promotions and tenure track jobs. The CCF ranking released in 2013 for "Multimedia and Graphics" is at the following link (one may use Google Translate to view the web page in English or other desired language): http://www.ccf.org.cn...
  • Call for Bids: ACM Multimedia 2016
    01/08/2014
    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 2016 conference in EUROPE. The details of the two required bid documents, evaluation procedure and deadlines are given in this document: http://disi.unitn.it/~sebe/2016_bid.txt The bids are due on September 2, 2013. Nicu Sebe (ACM SIGMM Director of Conferences)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2013) - Call for Papers & Call for Panels
    09/02/2013
    ===================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & CALL FOR PANELS *DEADLINE EXTENDED* ----------------------------------------------------- IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2013) Anaheim, California, USA, December 9-11, 2013 http://ism.eecs.uci.edu/ISM2013/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ===================================================== The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2013) is an international forum for...