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SIGMM Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications 2016
08/10/2017
ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present the 2016 SIGMM Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award to Dr. Christoph Kofler. The award committee considers Dr. Kofler’s dissertation entitled “User Intent in Online Video Search” worthy of the recognition as the thesis is the first to innovatively consider a user’s intent in multimedia search yielding significantly improved results in satisfying the information need of the user. The work has high...
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Announcement of ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2016
08/10/2017
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. Bart Thomee for his significant contributions in the areas of geo-multimedia computing, media evaluation, and open research datasets.
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...
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ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
08/10/2017
The 2016 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. Alberto del Bimbo. The award is given in recognition of his outstanding, pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of multimedia processing, multimedia content analysis, and multimedia applications, his leadership in multimedia education, and his outstanding and continued...
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YFCC100M on CACM Cover Page
02/01/2018
Dear Multimedia Researchers,
If you have not seen the cover page article that just appeared in the
Communications of ACM (CACM), I will urge you to take a look.
Thomee, Bart, Benjamin Elizalde, David A. Shamma, Karl Ni, Gerald
Friedland, Douglas Poland, Damian Borth, and Li-Jia Li. "YFCC100M: The
new data in multimedia research." Communications of the ACM 59, no. 2
(2016): 64-73.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/2/197425-yfcc100m/fulltext...
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Call for Papers: ACM ICMR 2016
07/28/2016
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2016 is seeking high quality and original papers.
Important Dates:
Paper submission due: January 29, 2016
Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2016
Camera-ready papers due: April 8, 2016
Read more...
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SIGMM 2015 Year End Update
02/01/2017
Dear Multimedia Colleagues,
I'd like to take this chance to wish everyone a happy holiday season and a wonderful new year in 2016!
2015 has been a fantastic year for SIGMM and the overall multimedia community. Following the action plans set in the 2014 SIGMM Retreat, we move on to implement the T-shaped vision for multimedia emphasizing both the depth and breadth of research underlying a wide range of applications. We are pleased to see our core technical conferences, ACM...
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TOMM Best Associate Editor Award 2015
09/07/2016
Annually, the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) honors one member of the Editorial Board with the TOMM Associate Editor of the Year Award. The purpose of the award is the distinction of excellent work for ACM TOMM and hence also for the whole multimedia community in the previous year. Criteria for the award are (1.) the amount of submissions processed in time, (2.) the performance during the reviewing process and (3.) the...
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ACM SIGMM/TOMM 2015 Award Announcements
09/07/2016
The ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMM) and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) are pleased to announce the following awards for 2015 recognizing outstanding achievements and services made in the multimedia community.
SIGMM Technical Achievement Award:
Dr. Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore
SIGMM Rising Star Award:
Dr. Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University
SIGMM Best Ph.D. Thesis Award:
Dr. Ting Yao...
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SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
08/10/2016
The 2015 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. Tat-Seng Chua. The award is given in recognition of his pioneering contributions to multimedia, text and social media processing.
Tat-Seng Chua is a leading researcher in multimedia, text and social media analysis and retrieval. He is one of the few researchers who has made substantial...
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Announcement of ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2015
08/10/2016
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. Yu-Gang Jiang.
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 of his or her career.
Dr. Yu-Gang Jiang has made fundamental contributions in the area of video analysis...
