TOMCCAP Award
Best Associate Editor Award: Gerald Friedland
Presented by Prof. Ralf Steinmetz
Volunteer Recognition
Web development: Liang Shuai Zichun Zhong
Presented by Prof. K. Selcuk Candan
Hive development: Xilun Chen Jung Hyun Kim
Presented by Prof. Prabhakaran Balakrishnan
Local arrangements:
Volunteer Core Team Members: Shayok Chakraborty, Michael Astrauskas, Eric Luster, Mithila Nagendra, Archana Paladugu, Hemanth Venkateswara, Qiang Zhang
Best Volunteer Leader: Troy McDaniel
Presented by Prof. Baoxin Li
Doctoral Symposium Award
Best Doctoral Symposium Paper: Ivan Anselmo Sipiran Mendoza, “Local Features for Partial Shape Matching and Retrieval”
Presented by Drs. Yu-Ru Lin and Vincent Oria
OSSC Awards
Best Open Source Software Competition Awards
Winner: J. Hare, S. Samangooei, D. Dupplaw, “OpenIMAJ and ImageTerrier: Java Libraries and Tools for Scalable Multimedia Analysis and Indexing of Images”
Honorable Mention:
“ClassX – An Open Source Interactive Lecture Streaming System”
“Opencast Matterhorn 1.1: Reaching New Heights”
Presented by Profs. Pablo Cesar and Wei Tsang Ooi
Multimedia Grand Challenge Winners
1st Prize:
"Photo Search by Face Positions and Facial Attributes on Touch Devices"
Yu-Heng Lei, Yan-Ying Chen, Lime Iida, Bor-Chun Chen, Hsiao-Hang Su, Winston H. Hsu
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2nd Prize:
"Towards Textually Describing Complex Video Contents with Audio-Visual Concept Classifiers"
Chun Chet Tan, Yu-Gang Jiang, Chong-Wah Ngo
Dept of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Special Prize on the Best Application of a Theoretical Framework:
"Understanding Images with Natural Sentences"
Yoshitaka Ushiku, Tatsuya Harada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
The University of Tokyo / JST PRESTO
Special Prize on the Best Integration of Multimedia Media:
"News Browsing System: Multimodal Analysis"
Bruno do Nascimento Teixeira, Julia Epischina Engracia de Oliveira, Fillipe Dias Moreira de Souza, Tiago Oliveira Cunha, Igor Calil Loures de Oliveira, Chrisitane Okamoto, Lucas Figueiredo Goncalves, Vinicius de Oliveira Silva, Arnaldo de Albuquerque Araujo
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Social Media Award
Award given to the person who made the most interesting comments and who initiated the most interesting discussions on the Social Media Channels:
Dr. Sina Samangooei
Presented by Profs. Laurent Amsaleg and Marcel Worring
MM’11 Travel Awardees
SIGMM Awardee Stefan Romberg University of Augsburg
Google Awardee Ivan Sipiran University of Chile
Qualcomm Awardee Shenghua Zhong Hong Kong Polytechnic University
UTD Awardee Song Tan City University of Hong Kong
ASU Awardee Xirong Li University of Amsterdam
NSF Awardee Zixia Huang University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign
NSF Awardee Ahsan Arefin University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign
NSF Awardee Xiaodong Yang City College of New York
NSF Awardee Shu Shi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NSF Awardee Felix Yu Columbia University
NSF Awardee Xia Li University of Texas at San Antonio
NSF Awardee Neela Sawant Pennsylvania State University
NSF Awardee Raoul Rivas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NSF Awardee Wanmin Wu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NSF Awardee Michele Merler Columbia University
NSF Awardee Yao Liu George Mason University
NSF Awardee Vivek Singh University of California, Irvine
NSF Awardee Troy McDaniel Arizona State University
NSF Awardee Richa Tiwari University of Alabama at Birmingham
NSF Awardee Wei-Bang Chen University of Alabama at Birmingham
Best Paper Award
F. Yu, R. Ji, S. Chang: “Active Query Sensing for Mobile Location Search”
Presented by Profs. Wu-Chi Feng, Nicu Sebe, Hari Sundaram
Best Student Paper Award
W. Wu, A. Arefin, G. Kurillo, B. Agarwal, K. Nahrstedt, R. Bajcsy: “Color-plus-Depth Level-of-Details in 3D Teleimmersive Video – A Psychophysical Approach”
R. Garg, A. Varma,M. Wu: ”Seeing” ENF: Natural Time Stamp for Digital Video via Optical Sensing and Signal Processing
Presented by Profs. Wu-Chi Feng, Nicu Sebe, Hari Sundaram
Best Technical Demo
David S Monaghan, Dublin City University, James O'Sullivan, Dublin City University, Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University: "Low-cost Creation of a 3D Interactive Museum Exhibition"