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ACM Multimedia 2010 Best Paper and Demos Awards at Gala Dinner
ACM Multimedia 2010 Gala Dinner was held yesterday in Salone dei 500 at Palazzo Vecchio. It was a wonderful night in a beautiful place. During the dinner were also awarded the authors of the best paper, best student paper and best demos.Best paper award: Richang Hong, Meng Wang, Mengdi Xu, Shuicheng Yan, Tat-Seng Chua, Dynamic [...]
Open Source Software Competition Winners!
We are very proud to announce the winners of the ACM Open Source Software Competition 2010
Congratulations!
Andrea Vedaldi, Brian Fulkerson, VLFeat – An open and portable library of computer vision algorithms – VLFeat
Rob Hess, An Open-Source SIFT Library – Open-Source SIFT
Florian Eyben, Martin Woellmer, Bjoern Schuller, openSMILE – The Munich Versatile and Fast Open-Source Audio [...]
SIGMM Phd Award to Effrosyni Kokiopoulou
Effrosyni Kokiopoulou, received today the SIGMM Phd Award for his thesis Geometry-Aware Analysis of High-Dimensional Visual Information Sets. Congratulations!
Multimedia Grand Challenge 2010 Winners!
With a very interesting and inspiring session ended today the edition of the ACM Multimedia Multimedia Grand Challenge 2010.
And the winners are (presenters in bold):
Jana Machajdik, Allan Hanbury, Julian Stöttinger: Understanding Affect in Images.
Wei Song, Dian Tjondronegoro, Ivan Himawan: ROI-based Content Adaptation for Mobile Device Usage of Video Conferencing.
Julien Law-To, Gregory Grefenstette, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Guillaume [...]
Technical Achievement Award to Ramesh Jain
Dr. Ramesh Jain, Discussion Rooms Chair of ACM Multimedia 2010, received today the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. Congratulations!
First Keynote Speech of Duncan Watts at ACM Multimedia 2010
Duncan Watts (author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age) opened the ACM Multimedia 2010 Main Conference Program with his keynote speech Using the Web to do Social Science. Duncan described, in particular, several interesting experiments concerning the measurement problems of collective behavior and focused on how the study of social networks can [...]
ACM Multimedia 2010 volunteers are ready
ACM Multimedia 2010 volunteers have met on saturday in Palazzo dei Congressi in Florence to plan all the activities to do during the conference.
All these young and talented students also received the ACMMM2010 t-shirt, created by the interaction design lab staff at MICC, in order to be recognizable by all the conference attendees.
ScientifiCareers, the job board of Multimedia, is online!
ScientifiCareers is a project dedicated to job opportunities for young researchers in the field of Multimedia.
The platform aims to promote the connection between companies and research labs, and to stimulate the exchange of expertise between different research teams.
ScientifiCareers is a free platform where professionals, industries and academic institutions can post their job requests in order [...]
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