Calls for Contributions

June 2011


SIGMM Sponsored and Co-sponsored Events

International ACM Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics and Intelligence

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://madm.dfki.de/mifor2011/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

MiFor 2011 offers a forum for bringing solutions from multimedia research into forensics and intelligence.

International Workshop on Automated Media Analysis and Production for Novel TV Services

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://aiempro2011.inria.fr/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The workshop aims at exploring the application and evaluation of automated information extraction techniques and audiovisual content analysis tools to support future media production for novel TV services.

The Third ACM SIGMM Workshop on Social Media

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg/~wsm2011/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The workshop seeks contributions on various aspects of social media including papers on related theory, methodology, algorithms and issues associated to social media content creation, modeling, manipulation, content analysis, information extraction, storage, search, learning and mining.

ACM Workshop on Social and Behavioral Networked Media Access

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/mmv/sbnma/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The first aim of this workshop is to address the question on how multimedia content analysis can be combined with information derived from behavioral modeling and social interactions in order to improve personalized content distribution. The second relates to the way in which personalized services can be offered to users, in a real time, ubiquitous seamless and comprehensive way.

Workshop on Sparse Representation for Event Detection in Multimedia

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/zhang/SRED11/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The goal of this workshop is to model, detect and recognise events using sparsity analysis and the applications that make use of sparse learning for event analysis in the context of multimedia data.

Third International Workshop on Social Signal Processing

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://sspnet.eu/2011/05/wssp/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

We seek to attract contributions representing the state-of-the-art efforts to develop algorithms that can process naturally occurring human social communication, decode communicative intent, and generate the appropriate socially-adept responses.

International ACM Workshop on Multimedia access to 3D Human Objects

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://www-rech.telecom-lille1.eu/ma3ho/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

This workshop aims at taking a leap forward in emerging research of multimedia access of 3D human objects, aggregating together basic research in 3D graphics, 3D recognition and retrieval.

The ACM International Workshop on Medical Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://web2.utc.edu/~swf134/Service/MMAR2011.htm
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of medical multimedia analysis and retrieval.

Story Representation Mechanism and Context

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://www.srmc2011.org/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

This half-day workshop will foster discussion on issues related to story generation, representation, discovery and understanding.

Internation ACM Workshop on Ubiquitous Meta User Interfaces

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://www.dai-labor.de/Ubi-MUI2011/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The aim of this workshop is to bring together different research groups to foster the developments of highly intuitive, multimedia supported meta user interfaces that bring transparency, predictability, and control into intelligent environments.

Third ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Leaning

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://mtdl2011.mine.tku.edu.tw/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The workshop will provide a public forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and information regarding advancements in the state of the art of emerging multimedia and e-learning related issues from multidisciplinary perspectives.

International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia on Mobile and Portable Devices

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~cfshan/IMMPD.html
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

This workshop will bring together researchers from both academia and industry in domains including computer vision, audio and speech processing, machine learning, pattern recognition, communications, human-computer interaction, and media technology to share and discuss recent advances in interactive multimedia.

First International ACM Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies

Full paper Deadline: July 11, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Event date: Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2011
URL: http://mirum11.tudelft.nl/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The workshop aims to gather experts from the Music Information Retrieval community and neighboring fields at a premier multimedia venue, to initiate a cross-disciplinary dialogue on open challenges in the field of Music Information Retrieval with user-centered and/or multimodal strategies.

3DLife/Huawei ACM MM Grand Challenge 2011

Full paper Deadline: August 6th, 2011

Event location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Event date: Nov 28th - Dec 1st, 2011
URL: http://www.3dlife-noe.eu/3DLife/emc2/grand-challenge/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

EMC2 have teamed up with Huawei to present a Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia 2011 on "Realistic Interaction in Online Virtual Environments". The challenge provides a captured dataset that consists of recordings of a number of Salsa dancers from a variety of modalities, together with ground-truth annotations of the choreographies.

ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys)

Full paper Deadline: September 19, 2010

Event location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Event date: February 22-24, 2012
URL: http://www.mmsys.org/
Sponsored by ACM SIG Multimedia

The ACM Multimedia Systems conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and scientists to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems is regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, real-time system, and database communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types.


Events held in cooperation with SIGMM

International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames)

Full paper Deadline: July 10, 2011

Event location: Ottawa, Canada
Event date: October 6-7 2011
URL: http://www.discover.uottawa.ca/netgames2011/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

NetGames brings together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to present the latest research results and challenges of todays networked games.

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

Full paper Deadline: July 15, 2011

Event location: Hue City, Vietnam
Event date: December 5-7, 2011
URL: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2011/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

MoMM is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all mobile computing and multimedia related areas.

Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference

Full paper Deadline: July 17, 2011

Event location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Event date: December 18-20, 2011
URL: http://www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011/
In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

AIRS aims to bring together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the field of information retrieval. The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video, and multimedia data.


Other multimedia-related Events

The 18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM)

Full paper Deadline: July 22, 2011

Event location: Klagenfurt, Austria
Event date: January 4-6, 2012
URL: http://mmm2012.org/

The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and demonstrations in areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and applications.

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia

Full paper Deadline: July 6, 2011

Event location: Dana Point, CA, USA
Event date: December 5-7, 2011
URL: http://ism.eecs.uci.edu/

ISM 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.


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