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ACM Multimedia 2009 Program

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- ACM Multimedia 2009 Program At A Glance

     
Mon. Oct.19 Tutorials day
  Opal Room @ Raffles Sapphire Room @ Raffles Amethyst Room @ Raffles    
8:00-17:00 Registration (Level 2 of Beijing Hotel)
8:30-12:00 T1 T3 T5    
12:00-14:00 Lunch (on your own)
14:00-17:30 T2 T4 T6    

T1: Content-based and Concept-based Retrieval for Large-Scale Image/Video Collections Rong Yan (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA); Winston H. Hsu(National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
T2: Music Information Retrieval-Theory and Applications Tutorial Brief Description George Tzanetakis (University of Victoria, Canada)
T3: Parallel Algorithms for Mining Large-scale Multimedia Dataset Edward Y. Chang (Google Research, China); Kaihua Zhu (Google Research, China); Hongjie Bai (Google Research, China)
T4: The Future Internet and its Prospects for Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications  Thomas Plagemann (University of Oslo, Norway); Vera Goebel     (University of Oslo, Norway)
T5: Ambient Media, Ambient Media Computation, and Media Technology Beyond Ambient Media Artur Lugmayr (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
T6: Multimedia Aspects in Health Care B. Prabhakaran (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

      
Tue. Oct. 20 1st Conference day
  Opal Room @ Raffles Sapphire Room @ Raffles Amethyst Room @ Raffles Meeting Room 8024 @Beijing Hotel Milti function Hall @ Beijing Hotel
8:00-17:00 Registration (Level 2 of Beijing Hotel)
8:45-9:00 Opening Remark (Jewel Room)
9:00-10:00 Keynote (Jewel Room)
Hong-Jiang Zhang - Multimedia Content Analysis and Search: New perspectives and approaches
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30   C1: Image Retrieval A1: Interactive Applications S1: Mobile Devices and Hardware/Sensor Support C5: Audio and Music Content Track Short Papers Session 1: Content Analysis
12:30-14:00   TOMCCAP Meeting, lunch included Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:30 C2: Content Analysis Applications SIGMM Exec Meeting A3: Information Summarization Interactive Art Program Track 1: Virtual Content Track Short Papers Session 2: Content Analysis and HCM
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:15 SIGMM Technical Achievement Award (Jewel Room)
16:15-17:45 Brave New Topics (Jewel Room)
Non-Conventional Media Interaction Paradigms
19:00-21:00 Conference Reception (Beijing Film Academy)
      
Wed. Oct. 21 2nd Conference day
  Opal Room @ Raffles Sapphire Room @ Raffles Amethyst Room @ Raffles Meeting Room 8024 @Beijing Hotel Milti function Hall @ Beijing Hotel
8:00-17:00 Registration (Level 2 of Beijing Hotel)
9:00-10:00 Panel (Jewel Room)
Multimedia Content Analysis: Model-based Approaches vs. Data-driven Approaches
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Best Paper Session (Jewel Room)
12:30-14:30 SIGMM Business Meeting & Lunch (Open to all, and lunch is provided to full registration participants at Quanjude Beijing Duck Restaurant)
SIGMM Business Meeting Agenda
14:30-16:00 C3: Image Annotation and Tagging S2: Media Streaming and Media Content Distribution Doctoral Symposium Interactive Art Program Track 2: Natural Technical Demonstration session 1
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Multimedia Grand Challenge (Jewel Room)
19:00-22:00 Conference Banquet (Beijing Hotel)
      
Thur. Oct. 22 3rd Conference day
  Opal Room @ Raffles Sapphire Room @ Raffles Amethyst Room @ Raffles Meeting Room 8024 @Beijing Hotel Milti function Hall @ Beijing Hotel
8:00-17:00 Registration (Level 2 of Beijing Hotel)
9:00-10:00 Keynote (Jewel Room)
Touradj Ebrahimi - Quality of Multimedia Experience :Past, Present and Future
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 C4: Video Analysis A2: Context Awareness H1: Human-Centered Multimedia Video Program Application Track Short Papers Session: Applications and Systems
12:30-14:00   MMSJ Meeting, lunch included Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:30 Panel (Jewel Room)
Mobile Media Search: Has Media Search Finally Found its Perfect Platform?
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 C6: Learning and Concept Detection S3+H2: 3D Mesh Streaming Open Source Software Competition Interactive Art Program Track 3: Visual Technical Demonstration session 2
 

AMC:       ACM Workshop on Ambient Media Computing
MTDL:     The First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning
IMCE:      International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics
EiMM:     The 1st International Workshop on Events in Multimedia
MSIADU: Workshop on Media studies and implementations that help Improving Access to Disabled Users
SSCS:    The Third Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech
LSMRM: Large-Scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining
WSMC:  The 1st Workshop on Web-Scale Multimedia Corpus
CEA:      Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities
WSM:    The first SIGMM Workshop on Social Media
MiFor:   Multimedia in Forensics

Fri. Oct. 23 Workshops day
  Opal Room
@ Raffles
Sapphire Room
@ Raffles
Amethyst Room
@ Raffles
Meeting Room 8024
@Beijing Hote
Meeting Room 8026 @Beijing Hotel Meeting Room 6024 @Beijing Hotel Meeting Room 6026 @Beijing Hotel Meeting Room 1024 @Beijing Hotel Meeting Room 1026
@Beijing Hotel
8:00-17:00 Registration (Level 2 of Beijing Hotel)
9:00-10:00 AMC
Keynote 1
MTDL
Keynote
IMCE
Keynote 1
EiMM
Keynote
MSIADU
Keynote
LSMRM/
WSMC
Keynote
  WSM
Keynote
MiFor
Keynote
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 AMC
S1, S2
MTDL
S1, S2
IMCE
S1, S2
EiMM
S1, S2
MSIADU
S1
LSMRM/
WSMC
S1, S2
  WSM
S1
MiFor
S1, S2
12:30-14:00 Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:30 AMC
Keynote 2
MTDL
S2, S3
IMCE
Keynote 2
S2
EiMM
S2, S3, S4
SSCS
Keynote S1
LSMRM/
WSMC
S3
CEA
S1
WSM
S2, S3
MiFor
S2, S3
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 AMC
S3, S4
MTDL
S3, S4
IMCE
S3
EiMM
S4
SSCS
S1, S2
LSMRM/
WSMC
S4, S5
CEA
S2
WSM
S3, S4
MiFor
S3, S4

* For full information about the workshops program, please use the ACM Multimedia 2009 Workshops Program Book

- SIGMM Business Meeting Agenda, October 21, 2009 (Wednesday)

13:00 Klara Nahrstedt (SIGMM chair) – State of SIGMM

SIGMM 2009-2011 Elections Results;
SIGMM New Logo Presentation;
SIGMM Venues we have sponsored/co-sponsored or supported in-cooperation during 2008-2009; SIGMM Financial Situation;
SIGMM Awards (New ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia) ;
ACM Preservation Efforts and New Initiatives;
Results from SIGMM Retreat – Status Reports on SIGMM Educational Activities (Wei Tsang Ooi) and Academia-Industry Relations (Baochun Li)

13:32 Nicolas Georganas – State of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Journal
13:40 Balakrishnan Prabhakaran – State of the SIGMM Web Magazine and Portal  
13:48 Carsten Griwotz – State of the SIGMM Records Newsletter
13:55 Thomas Plagemann – State of Springer Multimedia Systems Journal
14:02 Mohan Kankanhalli – Introduction of New Elected SIGMM Conference Director and discussion of new goals for future conferences
14:10 Bids for ACM Multimedia 2011 in North America (we have two bids, each gets 10 minutes)
14:30 End

- Conference Reception

Time:   October 20, 2009, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Venue: 2nd Floor, Building C, Campus of Beijing Film Academy (BFA)
            4 Xitucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100088, P.R. China
            100088     北京海淀区西土城路4号,北京电影学院院内C座二层

Transportation:

Free shuttles are provided between Beijing Hotel and Beijing Film Academy

Beijing Hotel => Beijing Film Academy

  • The first shuttle bus will depart from Beijing Hotel at 6:00 pm.
  • Pick-up point is located at the North Gate of Building E (Raffles), close to the escalator from JADA room to ground floor.

Beijing Film Academy => Beijing Hotel

  • The first shuttle bus will depart from Beijing Film Academy at 9:10 pm.
  • Pick-up point is at the nearby entrance of Building C (BFA)

Note: It’s about 12km between Beijing Hotel and Beijing Film Academy, and taxi fare is roughly from RMB 25 to RMB 45, which depends on traffic.

Local Artist Demo:

Attendees are welcome to visit studios located at the 4th and 5th Floor of Building C.

  • Room 501      Frame-based Animation Studio
                         Studio tours including a guide to the studio and students’ artworks
  • Room 430      Virtual Reality Studio
                         Interactive 3D movie
  • Room 423      Mini Cinema
                         Student-produced movies show

Map and Direction

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