ACM SIGMM Records

Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2013 (ISSN 1947-4598)

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Editorial

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community, welcome to the first issue of the SIGMM Records in 2013. This issue is full of opportunities that SIGMM gives you in 2013. Inside you find the calls for nominations for SIGMM’s three main awards: The SIGMM Technical Achievement Award, awarded for lasting contributions in … Read more

MPEG Column: 103rd MPEG Meeting

– original post by Multimedia Communication blog, Christian Timmerer, AAU   The 103rd MPEG meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland, January 21-15, 2013. The official press release can be found here (doc only) and I’d like to introduce the new MPEG-H standard (ISO/IEC 23008) referred to as high efficiency coding and media delivery in heterogeneous environments: Part 1: MPEG Media Transport (MMT) - status: … Read more

Interview with ACM Fellow and SIGMM Chair Prof Klara Nahrstedt

SIGMM Editor: “Why do societies such as ACM offer Fellows status to some of its members?” Prof Klara Nahrstedt: The ACM society celebrates through its ACM Fellows Status Program the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and … Read more

SIGMM Education Column

SIGMM Education Column of this issue highlights a new book, titled “Visual Information Retrieval using Java and LIRE,” which gives an introduction to the fields of information retrieval and visual information retrieval and points out selected methods, as well as their use and implementation within Java and more specifically LIRE, … Read more

Call for TOMCCAP Special Issue Proposals

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM – TOMCCAP) Deadline for Proposal Submission: May, 1st 2013 Notification: June, 1st 2013 http://tomccap.acm.org/ ACM – TOMCCAP is one of the world’s leading journals on multimedia. As in previous years we are planning to publish a special issue in 2014. Proposals … Read more

Call for Nominations: ACM TOMCCAP Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award

The Editor-in-Chief of ACM TOMCCAP invites you to nominate candidates for the “ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award”. The award is given annually to the author(s) of an outstanding paper published in ACM TOMCCAP within the previous legal year from January 1 … Read more


Call for Contributions

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Table of Contents

  1. Editorial
  2. MPEG Column: 103rd MPEG Meeting
  3. Interview with ACM Fellow and SIGMM Chair Prof Klara Nahrstedt
  4. SIGMM Education Column
  5. Call for TOMCCAP Special Issue Proposals
  6. Call for Nominations: ACM TOMCCAP Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award
  7. Call for Nominations: SIGMM Technical Achievement Award
  8. Call for Nominations: SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis
  9. SIGMM Elections
  10. Call for Multimedia Grand Challenge Solutions
  11. Open Source Column: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP Toolset
  12. PhD thesis abstracts
    1. John Gilmore
    2. Paul B. Beskow
    3. Zhijie Shen
  13. Journal issue TOCs
    1. MMSJ Volume 19, Issue 2
    2. MMSJ, Volume 19, Issue 1
    3. TOMCCAP, Volume 8, Issue 4
    4. TOMCCAP, Volume 9, Issue 1
  14. Job opportunities
    1. Assistant Professor Interaction Technology
    2. FXPAL Intern position for Summer 2013
  15. Calls for paper
    1. CFPs for SIGMM-sponsored events
    2. CFPs for ACM-sponsored events (any SIG)
    3. CFPs for other multimedia-related events
  16. Notice to contributing authors
  17. Impressum