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Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2011 (ISSN 1947-4598)
EditorialWelcome to the December issue of the SIGMM Records in 2011. You can find news from the last MPEG meeting, a new teaching book in multimedia, and an open source software that fits the topic. We announce the first call for nominations for the brand-new Nicolas Georganas TOMCCAP Award, the established ACM History Award, report from Ed-Media, and more. Report from ED-Media 2011Ed-Media is an international conference on "Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunication". It is one of the largest international conferences on these topics. This year it was held in Lisbon, Portugal. This article presents a historical overview of Ed-Media and an overview of the 2011 edition. |
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Open Source Column: LIRe - A Java Library for Content Based Image RetrievalContent based image retrieval (CBIR) has been for quite some time a hot research topic. Many research groups and practitioners aim to build on existing tools to avoid reimplementation of existing approaches. LIRe satisfies such needs by providing a library of basic and advanced functions employed in the field of content based image retrieval. SIGMM Education Column: Practical Image and Video Processing Using MATLABSIGMM Education Column of this issue highlights a new book titled "Practical Image and Video Processing Using MATLAB", which provides a practical introduction to the most important topics in image and video processing, using MATLAB® (and its Image Processing Toolbox) as a tool to demonstrate relevant techniques and algorithms. |
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MPEG Column: 98th MPEG MeetingIn our regular column from the MPEG Meetings, we present interesting news from the 98th MPEG meeting, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland. It brings you news on DASH, 3D Video Coding, the competiation for royalty free video coding, MPEG-H, Compact Descriptors for Visual Search, Multimedia Preservation Description Information, and MPEG Augmented Reality. Announcement: Open Source Software on sigmm.orgThe new Open Source Software section on SIGMM's webpage contains information about open source multimedia software. The intention is to provide a space for fostering better synergy between the multimedia and the open source communities. |
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Call for ContributionsWe await your contributions by 15. March 2012. Please take a closer look at the information that is required for a particular submission to the newsletter.
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