Calls for Contributions

March 2010


SIGMM Sponsored and Co-sponsored Events

ACM Multimedia (Full Paper)

Full paper Deadline: April 11, 2010

Event location: Firenze, Italy
Event date: October 25-29, 2010
URL: http://www.acmmm10.org/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

ACM Multimedia 2010 is the worldwide premier multimedia conference and a key event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products. The Conference offers to scientists and practitioners in the area of Multimedia plenary scientific and technical sessions, tutorials, panels and discussion meetings on relevant and challenging questions for the next years horizon of multimedia.

ACM Multimedia (Short Paper, Demos, Video program)

Full paper Deadline: May 7, 2010

Event location: Firenze, Italy
Event date: October 25-29, 2010
URL: http://www.acmmm10.org/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

ACM Multimedia 2010 is the worldwide premier multimedia conference. Short papers should present interesting and exiciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferrably include a system demonstration. Technical demonstrations will provide live evidence of innovative solutions in the field of Multimedia and its applications, showing leading edge research at work. Submissions are particularly encouraged in the areas of novel interface design, multimedia and multimodal interaction, 3D multimedia and immersive technologies, wireless multimedia applications, only to cite a few. ACM Multimedia 2010 Video Program is intended to allow researchers and video producers to demonstrate their research results or video productions without having to bring the equipment for a live demo.

The Multimedia Grand Challenge @ ACM MM 2009

Full paper Deadline: May 7, 2010

Event location: Firenze, Italy
Event date: October 25-29, 2010
URL: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/conferences/mmchallenge/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The Multimedia Grand Challenge is key part of the ACM Multimedia program aiming at engaging the research community on the main challenges of the next future as perceived by the major world companies in Multimedia Technologies such as Google, Yahoo, HP, Radvision, CeWe, Nokia and others. It will focus on the solution of relevant and challenging questions about the industry's 2-5 year horizon for multimedia.


Events held in cooperation with SIGMM

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

Full paper Deadline: April 15, 2010

Event location: Atlanta, GA, USA
Event date: Aug. 31 - Sept. 4, 2010
URL: http://www.icdsc.org/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

The ICDSC conference offers insight into the potentials and challenges of distributed vision networks and presentation of design methodologies employed by leading research groups working in these areas.

ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop (MM&Sec)

Full paper Deadline: April 28, 2010

Event location: Rome, Italy
Event date: September 9-10, 2010
URL: http://www.mmsec10.com/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

The objective of the workshop is to identify key future research issues in the areas of multimedia security such as data protection, media forensics, hidden communications and security issues in biometrics, as well as topics in technology policy and legal issues pertaining to multimedia security.

International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2010)

Full paper Deadline: June 4, 2010

Event location: Paris, France
Event date: November 8-10, 2010
URL: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

MoMM2010 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and professionals for presenting recent research results on mobile computing and multimedia, and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for the exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges in mobile computing and multimedia.

International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI)

Full paper Deadline: May 20, 2010

Event location: Beijing, China
Event date: October 8-10, 2010
URL: http://www.acm.org/icmi/2010/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

The main aim of the conference is to further scientific research within the broad field of multimodal interaction, methods, and systems, focusing on major trends and challenges, and working towards identifying a roadmap for future research and commercial success.


Other multimedia-related Events

International conference on Semantics And digital Media Technologies (SAMT)

Full paper Deadline: June 22, 2010

Event location: Saarbruecken, Germany
Event date: September 1-3, 2010
URL: http://www.samt2010.org/

The conference targets to narrow the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The Semantic Gap.

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2010)

Full paper Deadline: July 12, 2010

Event location: Taichung, Taiwan
Event date: December 13-15, 2010
URL: http://ism2010.asia.edu.tw/

This symposium 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.

IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010)

Full paper Deadline: May 3, 2010

Event location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Event date: September 20-22, 2010
URL: http://www.ieee-icsc.org/

The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying emerging research topics and defining the future of the field.

IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2010)

Full paper Deadline: April 15, 2010

Event location: Saint-Malo, France
Event date: October 4-6, 2010
URL: http://mmsp2010.org/index.html

The focus theme for this workshop is entertainment, gaming and virtual reality for the future. Everyday services at home and away, gaming and entertainment are more and more interconnected with multimedia systems and applications and have a bigger than ever part in our lives. Virtual and augmented reality, haptics and sensor networks are transforming this field and will deeply modify our perception and interaction with these future services and appliances.

ACM International Conference on Health Informatics (IHI)

Full paper Deadline: June 5, 2010

Event location: Washington, DC, USA
Event date: November 11-12, 2010
URL: http://ihi2010.sighi.org

The annual ACM IHI conference is an international forum concerned with the application of computer and information science principles and information and communication technology to problems in healthcare, public health, the delivery of healthcare services and consumer health as well as the related social and ethical issues. The organizers invite demo and paper contributions from researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore and disseminate cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences.

ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Middleware Conference (Middleware)

Full paper Deadline: May 23, 2010

Event location: Bangalore, India
Event date: November 29-December 3, 2010
URL: http://2010.middleware-conference.org/

The Middleware conference is a forum for the discussion of important innovations and recent advances in the design, implementation, deployment, and usage of middleware. Middleware is a distributed-systems software that resides between a rich variety of applications on the one hand, and the underlying architecture on the other hand which may consist of the OS, hardware, and network stacks or even databases, storage and different cloud services. The goals of middleware include providing abstractions, programmability, performance, scalability, security, and a variety of essential features. This is a rapidly evolving and growing field. Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 11th International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research and technology in 2010. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for current and future computing, storage, and communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality technical program, invited speakers, an industrial track, poster and demo presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops.

MediaEval Multimedia Benchmark Evaluation

Full paper Deadline: Register by May 15, 2010

Event location: Pisa, Italy
Event date: October 24, 2010
URL: http://www.multimediaeval.org/

MediaEval is a benchmarking initiative that offers tasks promoting research and innovation on multimodal approaches to multimedia access and retrieval. The MediaEval benchmarking initiative offers tasks in multimedia access and retrieval including tagging, geo-tagging, affect detection, linking and passage retrieval. Archival and creative commons Internet video datasets are provided. MediaEval 2010 follows VideoCLEF 2008-2009 under sponsorship of PetaMedia, an EU Network of Excellence.

European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP)

Full paper Deadline: June 21, 2010

Event location: London, UK
Event date: November 10-11, 2010
URL: http://www.cvmp-conference.org

CVMP, an industry-academic conference, brings together expertise in video processing, computer vision, computer graphics, animation and physical simulation for film, television, commercials and games. It provides a forum for the presentation of the latest research advances combined with key-note and invited talks on state-of-the-art industry practice in content production and post-production.


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