The organizers of the ACM Multimedia Systems 2015 conference and its co-located workshops (NOSSDAV 2015, MoVid 2015, and MMVE 2015) are pleased to announce the 2015 ACM SIGMM Student Travel Grants to encourage more students both at the graduate and undergraduate levels to attend and participate in the ACM MMSys 2015 conference and co-located workshops. Each travel award will cover up to USD 500 towards conference travel-related costs (registration fee, hotel, and airfare). We especially encourage minority and female PhD students to apply. In addition, special consideration will be given to undergraduate students actively participating in research. Please note that the funds are quite limited and therefore the grants are expected to be quite competitive.

SELECTION CRITERIA

• The applicant must be a student enrolled at an international university and pursuing a PhD degree or be a research-active M.S. or undergraduate student in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or technical field related to conference topics.
• Priority will be given to student authors with accepted papers at ACM MMSys 2015 and/or its co-located workshops.
• The recipients must register and attend the full conference.
• The funding will be used for student travel-related support only. Preference will be given to students traveling from a far distance to the conference.

COMMITTEE

• Zixia Huang (Google Inc.)
• Yao Liu (SUNY Binghamton)
• Håkon Kvale Stensland (University of Oslo)

APPLICATION PROCESS

To apply, graduate and undergraduate students must send an email to mmsys15.stg@gmail.com with a single PDF document with:

• Your CV or resume (containing your full name and e-mail address, current address and contact phone number, and current GPA in the coursework).
• 1-paragraph statement (no more than 250 words) how you will be participating in the conference and why attending it is important to your research, work, and/or future career.
• A letter of nomination from the sponsoring faculty member that specifies how much, if anything, your advisor can provide in terms of travel support.

SERVICE REQUIREMENT

Please note that we ask all grant recipients to volunteer as “scribes” sometime during the week and take notes in some of the sessions. We will work with you to assign your time slots, so that you will not be forced to miss anything you want to attend.

DEADLINES

• Application Submission: Feb 9, 2015
• Decisions/Notifications: Feb 23, 2015

NOTIFICATION

The awardees will be notified by email and their names will be published on the conference Web page.

REIMBURSEMENT

Awardees must keep the receipts for their travel costs (the cost for registration, airfare, and hotel only) for reimbursement with ACM.

Furthermore, MMSys provides an avenue for communicating research that addresses multimedia systems holistically.  Multimedia systems permeate many aspects of our daily life, and are steadily developed further. MMSys is a venue for researchers who explore:

• Complete multimedia systems that provide a new kind of multimedia experience or systems whose overall performance improves the state-of-the-art through new research results in one of more components, or
• Enhancements to one or more system components that provide a documented improvement over the state-of-the-art for handling continuous media or time-dependent services.

Such individual system components include:

• Operating systems
• Distributed architectures and protocol enhancements
• Domain languages, development tools and abstraction layers
• Using new architectures or computing resources for multimedia
• New or improved I/O architectures or I/O devices, innovative uses and algorithms for their operation
• Representation of continuous or time-dependent media
• Metrics, measures and measurement tools to assess performance

This touches aspects of many hot topics: DASH, games, virtual environments, augmented reality, 3D video, immersive systems, telepresence, multi- and many-core, GPGPUs, mobile streaming, P2P, Clouds, cyber-physical systems – explore the connections on http://www.mmsys.org

TECHNICAL DEMONSTRATION SESSION

The technical demonstration session provides an opportunity for participants to showcase their research prototypes, systems, and applications to MMSys attendees. We invite submission of 2-4 page demo proposals (in ACM proceedings style, written in English) describing the research and what will be shown during the demonstration. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and selection will be based on the novelty of the research and interestingness of the demonstration.

IMPORTANT DATES

Full Paper Submission Deadline: November 10, 2014
Acceptance Notification: December 19, 2014
Camera Ready Deadline: January 19, 2015

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

CONTACT

For further queries and extra information, please contact Chuan Wu at cwu@cs.hku.hk