SIGMM Records

Calls for papers

• Calls for SIGMM Sponsored and Co-sponsored Events
  • The Multimedia Grand Challenge @ ACM MM 2009
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM)
  • The 11th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security (MM&SEC)
  • 2010 Special Issue CFP for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
  • The 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality and Software Technology (VRST)
• Calls for Events held in cooperation with SIGMM
  • Third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC)
  • 5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia)
• Other multimedia-related Events
  • The Second International Workshop on Human Control of Ubiquitous Systems (HUCUBIS)
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
  • The Sixth International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine)
  • The IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing

SIGMM Sponsored and Co-sponsored Events

The Multimedia Grand Challenge @ ACM MM 2009

Full paper Deadline: June 15, 2009

Event location: Beijing, China
Event date: October 19-24, 2009
URL: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/conferences/mmchallenge/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The Multimedia Grand Challenge is a set of problems and issues from industry leaders, geared to engage the Multimedia research community in solving relevant, interesting and challenging questions about the industry's 2-5 year horizon for multimedia.

ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM)

Full paper Deadline: April 10, 2009 (Abstract)

Event location: Beijing, China
Event date: October 19 - 24, 2009
URL: http://www.acmmm09.org/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

ACM Multimedia 2009 invites you to participate in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia, from underlying technologies to applications, from theory to practice.

The 11th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security (MM&SEC)

Full paper Deadline: April 30 2009

Event location: Princeton, NJ, USA
Event date: September 7-8, 2009
URL: http://www.mmsec09.com/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

Papers addressing security in multimedia processing, transmission, and consumption are welcomed. Both theoretical concepts dealing with fundamental performance issues and application-oriented contributions within this scope will be considered. Software and hardware demonstrations are highly encouraged.

2010 Special Issue CFP for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Full paper Deadline: April 30 2009

Event location: N/A
Event date: N/A
URL: http://tomccap.acm.org/CFP2010.html
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

TOMCCAP publishes one special issue per year, which traditionally appears as the November issue. This is a call for proposals for the 2010 special issue of TOMCCAP. Interested guest-editors should submit proposals covering the indicated aspects (see URL) to the EiC by email.

The 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality and Software Technology (VRST)

Full paper Deadline: June 10, 2009

Event location: Kyoto, Japan
Event date: November 18-20, 2009
URL: http://grouse.ime.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp:8080/VRST2009/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology is an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with virtual reality software and technology. VRST 2009 will provide an opportunity for VR researchers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations of their work, and discuss emerging directions for the field.

Events held in cooperation with SIGMM

Third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC)

Full paper Deadline: April 7, 2009 (Abstract)

Event location: Como, Italy
Event date: August 30 - September 2, 2009
URL: http://www.icdsc.org/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

The terms distributed and smart cameras emphasize the focus of the conference. Papers describing original research in the areas of multi-camera networks and distributed processing of visual data are solicited.

5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia)

Full paper Deadline: April 30, 2009

Event location: London, UK
Event date: September 7-9, 2009
URL: http://www.mobimedia.org/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia, working in multimedia coding, mobile communications and networking fields, to study new technologies, applications and standards.

Other multimedia-related Events

The Second International Workshop on Human Control of Ubiquitous Systems (HUCUBIS)

Full paper Deadline: April 24, 2009

Event location: Dublin, Ireland
Event date: July 15, 2009
URL: http://www.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pi4/projects/hucubis09/

The goal of this workshop is to discuss how to keep users in the control loop of ubiquitous systems while realizing distraction-free system operation. To do so, we will bring together researchers from the areas of human computer interaction, adaptive systems, and ubiquitous computing to provide and discuss novel ideas and techniques for the control of ubiquitous systems. Topics include appropriate middleware and service platforms, novel multimedia interfaces, as well as user studies and evaluations of user controlled ubiquitous systems.

The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia

Full paper Deadline: June 10, 2009

Event location: San Diego, CA, USA
Event date: December 14-16, 2009
URL: http://ism2009.eecs.uci.edu/

The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing.

The Sixth International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine)

Full paper Deadline: May 22, 2009

Event location: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Event date: November 23-26, 2009
URL: http://www.qshine.org/index.shtml

The aim of this conference is to bring together research and practitioners to present and share the latest results in the areas of performance, configuration, cross-layer approaches, scalability, resilience and survivability of large scale heterogeneous networks and distributed systems.

The IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing

Full paper Deadline: May 1, 2009

Event location: Berkeley, CA, USA
Event date: September 14-16, 2009
URL: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc

The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation and matching of the semantics of computational content to that of naturally expressed user intentions in order to retrieve, manage, manipulate or even create content, where "content" may be anything including video, audio, text, processes, services, hardware, networks, etc.