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ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
10/16/2018
The 2017 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
is Prof. Dr. Arnold Smeulders. The award is given in recognition of his outstanding and pioneering contributions to defining and bridging the semantic gap in content-based image retrieval.
During the early years of his scientific career Dr. Smeulders studied the invariant...
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ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2017
10/16/2018
The ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present this year’s Rising Star Award in multimedia computing, communications and applications to Dr. Liangliang Cao for his significant contributions in large-scale multimedia recognition and social media mining.
The ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of multimedia computing, communication and applications during the early part...
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SIGMM Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications 2017
07/12/2019
The ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present the 2017 SIGMM Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award to Dr. Chien-Nan (Shannon) Chen. The award committee considers Dr. Chien-Nan Chen’s dissertation entitled “Semantics-Aware Content Delivery Framework For 3D Tele-Immersion” worthy of the recognition as the thesis is the first to consider semantic information in full-aspect with 3DTI systems.
Dr. Chen’s thesis includes confound semantic...
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Passing the Baton to New SIGMM Volunteer Leaders
02/01/2018
Dear Multimedia Colleagues,
We are writing to welcome the new SIGMM leaders assuming their posts on
July 1st. The new team includes Alan Smeaton as the Chair, Nicu Sebe as
the Vice Chair, and Gerald Friedland as the Conference Director. Each of
them is a pioneer researcher in the multimedia field and has been
actively contributing to the community. We are confident they will be
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Call for Nominations on SIGMM in 2017
08/10/2017
* SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2017
sigmm.org/Awards/award_taa
* SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2017
sigmm.org/Awards/thesisaward
* SIGMM Rising Star Award
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017
sigmm.org/Awards/risingstaraward
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Call For Papers IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
02/01/2018
Important Dates
Second-round review completed: November 1, 2017
Paper submission due: April 15, 2017
First-round review completed: July 1, 2017
Revision Due: August 15, 2017
Final manuscript due: December 1, 2017
Publication date: Early-2018
Video analytics, also known as video content analysis, refers to the capability of automatically analyzing video to extract knowledge/...
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SIGMM Statement on Open Participation
02/01/2018
SIGMM is ACM¹s Special Interest Group on Multimedia supporting the
international community of researchers, practitioners, and students
dedicated to research and development of next-generation technologies
and applications of multimedia. We support the core principle of
inclusion in and open access to international scientific interaction,
and thus endorse the statements issued by ACM regarding Open Conference.
ACM Open Conference Statement
http://www.acm.org/...
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SIGMM Election and Call for Nominations for Student Conference Scholarship
02/01/2018
Dear SIGMMers,
Let us take this chance to wish everyone a healthy and productive new
year in 2017. We also want to provide update on two important upcoming
events.
1. The term of the current volunteer leadership team (including Chair
Shih-Fu Chang, Vice Chair Rainer Lienhart, and Conference Director Nicu
Sebe) will expire this June. ACM office is in the process of preparing
the ballots for election which will take place in early...
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Special Session on Multi-Sensory Experiences at ACM MMSys 2017
04/07/2017
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: February 10, 2017
Acceptance notification: April 14, 2017
Camera ready deadline: April 28, 2017
Scope & Goals:
In all these years, multimedia research and development have succeeded to offer users increasingly diverse services at higher quality levels by engaging two of the human senses only: sight and hearing. However, important findings from psychological and neuroscience research, as well as technological advances...
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Call for Papers: ACM ICMR 2017
04/07/2017
ACM ICMR 2017 is calling for papers presenting significant and
innovative research in multimedia retrieval and related fields.
Important Dates:
Paper submission due: January 27, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2017
Camera-ready papers due: April 26, 2017
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