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ACM SIGMM Records
Submitted by Anonymous on September 18, 2011 - 03:16
Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2011 (ISSN 1947-4598)
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Welcome to the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!
The Mission
The SIGMM Records are the SIG Multimedia's quarterly newsletter. They are distributed at the end of every quarter.
The Records provide a platform for disseminating many kinds of multimedia-related information, and an announcement channel for official ACM SIGMM news.
The SIGMM Records do not publish original research works, this is left to the SIG's peer-reviewed conference proceedings and journals. The Records provide an opportunity to publish information about successful research and background stories, as well as errata.
Contributions
Members of SIGMM can submit freely any of this content. Non-members will need a sponsor of their contribution who is a member of SIGMM.
Summaries of recently defended PhD theses are of particular interest. Although such theses represent the culmination of years of a PhD student's work, and are probably the most thoroughly written and best reviewed single publication of a researcher up to that point, they remain frequently invisible to the community and are quickly forgotten. SIGMM wants to change that. Along with the yearly SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications that is presented to a single student, the Records can be used to inform the community about these theses.
Also highly welcome are your statements and summaries of the state of particular research topics in multimedia, your views on the interaction between research and industry, and views of the future. We value critical and outrageous opinions that can raise discussions in the community, and hope that your contribution can encourage discussions in the SIGMM forum or on the mailing list mm-interest@acm.org.
The Records are also an appropriate place for announcing code and data sets that you make freely available to the community, and to present some background for it.
Reports from all events that are sponsored or co-sponsored by ACM SIGMM should be made available through the Records, but we encourage also events that are held in cooperation with SIGMM to send reports. Since the Records are archived for posterity, we encourage contributors to send reports that are concerned with the arrangements and scientific content of the event, rather than financial information or the vacation potential of the location. For events whose proceedings are available from a digital library, we include links to the archive for the published papers.
We are also very happy to publish announcements of grant and award opportunities, including deadlines for funding programs, and we invite SIGMM members to announce grants and awards that they themselves or another member have received. We announce calls for paper in the general field of multimedia, and encourage submissions of such calls to the Records. Finally, you can also use the Records to announce open positions for multimedia researchers.
Availability
The Records are available as an ACM newsletter series with the ISSN 1947-4598. You can find it on the SIGMM website at http://sigmm.org/records and through the ACM Digital Library.
To receive the highlights of the SIGMM Records with links into the online version by email, you can subscribe to the mailing list sigmm-records@simula.no that is used for distributing the Records four times a year. No other postings to this mailing list will be allowed, but everybody may subscribe as a reader.
You find subscription information for this mailing list at https://sympa.uio.no/simula.no/subscribe/sigmm-records . A notice about the availability of a new newsletter will also be posted to sigmm@pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de and mm-interest@acm.org. Also an RSS feed of this web page will tell you when a new newsletter is ready.
As a channel for offical SIG announcement by the SIGMM leadership, the Records complement the web pages at sigmm.org and the closed mailing list for official announcement to SIGMM members, sigmm-members@acm.org. While the Records appear only quarterly, they are available from the ACM Digital Library and provide a history of important SIG events.
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Editorial
Welcome to the second issue of the SIGMM Records in 2011! MediaEval 2011MediaEval is a benchmarking initiative that offers tasks promoting research and innovation on multimodal approaches to multimedia annotation and retrieval. Its focus is on speech, language, context and social aspects of multimedia, in addition to visual content. The MediaEval 2011 benchmarking season culminates with the MediaEval 2011 workshop. For several tasks, participants receive a task definition, task data and accompanying resources (dependent on task) such as shot boundaries, keyframes, visual features, speech transcripts and social metadata. Read on for the tasks that participants are tackling in 2011. |
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SIGMM Education ColumnIn this issue's SIGMM Education Column, we highlight a new textbook on multimedia computing, written by two active members of the SIGMM community, Ramesh Jain and Gerald Friedland. The textbook, titled ``Introduction to Multimedia Computing,'' is targeted at senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students. It is scheduled to appear in 2011 and is published by Cambridge University Press. Call for Bids: ACM Multimedia 2014The ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia is inviting for bids for holding its flagship "ACM International Conference on Multimedia". The bids are invited for holding the 2014 conference in North America and they are due on October 1, 2011. To find out about the details of the two required bid documents, evaluation procedure and deadlines, read on. |
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MPEG Internet Video CodingThe new MPEG column of the SIGMM Records keeps the multimedia community up to date on developments in MPEG. At its 96th meeting, MPEG issued two document in the area of Internet video coding which are publicly available, a Draft Call for Proposals (CfP) for Internet Video Coding Technologies, and a document concerning Requirements for Internet Video Coding Technologies. ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2011The second MMSys conference was held in San Jose, CA, in February on the Cisco campus. This instance of MMSys was already seeing many more submissions and attendees than the first conference. In addition, Cisco's WebEx and Cisco TV provided live feeds from MMSys to remote participants. Co-chair Christian Timmerer connected MMSys to the MPEG community by organizing a special session called "Multimedia Transport: DASH", and MMSys offered a dataset track that allows researchers to share the often-ignored work of collecting data and get credit for it. |
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Call for ContributionsWe await your contributions by 15. September 2011. Please take a closer look at the information that is required for a particular submission to the newsletter.
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| SIGMM Records Issue | HTML version | FLASH version | Digital Library version |
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| Vol. 3 No. 2, June 2011 | YES | NOT YET | NOT YET |
| Vol. 3 No. 1, March 2011 | YES | NOT YET | NOT YET |
| Vol. 2 No. 4, December 2010 | YES | NOT YET | NOT YET |
| Vol. 2 No. 3, September 2010 | YES | YES | YES |
| Vol. 2 No. 2, June 2010 | YES | YES | YES |
| Vol. 2 No. 1, March 2010 | YES | YES | YES |
| Vol. 1 No. 4, December 2009 | YES | YES | |
| Vol. 1 No. 3, September 2009 | YES | YES | |
| Vol. 1 No. 2, June 2009 | YES | YES | |
| Vol. 1 No. 1, March 2009 | YES | YES |
Submission date: 15. September 2011
We await your contributions by 15. September 2011. Please follow the links provided below to see the information that is required for a particular submission to the newsletter. You can use the provided forms to create an email contribution or send an email directions to enews-contributions@sigmm.org but please do not hesitate to contact us at the same email address with ideas for contributions related to book reviews, comments, paper errata or outrageous statements that you would like to make known.
Outrageous opinions and critical discussions
We invite members of SIGMM to make initiate discussions about the state-of-the-art in Multimedia by contributing to SIGMM Records. Maybe you have noticed that it is time to stop simulating and start building in one of our field? Here you argue for it. Maybe you observe that some of our fields overlap and should really talk to each other? Here you can motivate them. We are open for most contributions, but SIGMM membership of at least one author is mandatory, and the contributions will be reviewed, may need revision and they may even be rejected entirely.
| Submit your opinion. |
Paper errata and background information
Our publication channels leave very few openings for providing additional information about papers that have been published in conference proceedings or journals. There is the option of creating a technical report, but even those with ISBN numbers are notoriously volatile. SIGMM Records allows SIGMM members to provide additional information about, and particularly to make correction to, a paper that has been published by a SIGMM-sponsored or co-sponsored venue and that is available from the ACM Digital Library. SIGMM membership of at least one author is mandatory, and the contributions will be reviewed, may need revision and they may even be rejected entirely.
| Submit your paper errata. |
PhD thesis abstracts
To achieve its goal of strengthening the dissemination of research and in order to get to know the members of the community, the newsletter will feature abstracts of recently concluded PhD theses. If you are a member of ACM SIGMM and have successfully defended your PhD thesis in a field that is relevant to the SIGMM community in the past 6 months, or if you are a SIGMM member and you have supervised a student who has recently achieved this, you are invited to submit an abstract that briefly describes the work.
| Submit a PhD thesis abstract. |
Conference and workshop report
To achieve its goal of strengthening the dissemination of research, the SIGMM newsletter publishes reports from conferences and workshops that are held with SIGMM involvement. This includes events that have been held with sponsorship of as well as in cooperation with SIGMM.
| Submit a report for an event. |
Freely available source code, traces and test content
To strengthen the cooperation within the SIGMM community, we ask you to use the newsletter to announce material that you have made available to the community for free. This should include source code, traces, and test content that can be used by any member of the community for research purposes without any payment whatsoever. The material must not come with any conditions of use that limit the freedom of research of the SIGMM member who decides to make use of this material, and it must not prevent the user from any activity unrelated to the use of this material.
| Submit an item that is freely available. |
Awards granted
We request your contributions concerning major scientific awards that have been granted to members of the ACM SIGMM. Your contribution should include both a short description of the award itself, and more details about the SIG member's scientific work for which the award has been granted.
| Submit an award grant article. |
Announcements
Short announcements will be included in the newsletter.
| Submit an event announcement |
| Submit an opportunity for awards |
| Submit a position announcement |
- SIGMM-sponsored, co-sponsored or in-cooperation conferences and workshops, other multimedia-related events sponsored by ACM, and multimedia-related special issues for journals
- Opportunities for awards, including multimedia-related opportunities for research projects
- Open research positions, at least at master level and only from employers
Editorial board
Carsten Griwodz (Simula Research Laboratory)
Stephan Kopf (University of Mannheim)
Viktor Wendel (Darmstadt University of Technology)
Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
Wei Tsang Ooi (National University of Singapore)
