ACM SIGMM - the Special Interest Group on Multimedia

2012 Call for Proposals: ACM History Fellowship

The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has 100,000 members around the world. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee plans to make two types of awards. Travel grants of $2,500 support smaller projects, while a fellowship grant of $5,000 may support a larger or more demanding project. Projects should focus on ACM activities, including those of members, officers, and prize winners, or ACM's rich institutional history, including consideration of its organization, publications, SIG activities, and conferences. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. The current and past winners of the fellowship can be...

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SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications <Call for Submission>

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2012

This award will be presented at most once per year to a researcher whose PhD thesis has the potential of very high impact in multimedia computing, communication and applications, or gives direct evidence of such impact. A selection committee will evaluate contributions towards advances in multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia network protocols and services, multimedia applications and interfaces. The award will recognize members of the SIGMM community and their research contributions in their PhD theses as well as the potential of impact of their PhD theses in multimedia area. The selection committee will focus on candidates’ contributions as judged by innovative ideas and potential impact resulting from their PhD work....

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SIGMM Award 2011

SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

The 2011 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Dr. Shih-Fu Chang. Dr. Shih-Fu Chang is currently professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the Columbia University, NY. The ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions over a researcher’s career, cites Dr. Chang’s "pioneering research and inspiring contributions in multimedia analysis and retrieval". The SIGMM award will be presented at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2011...

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ICMR Rules and Principles

ICMR - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
www.acmICMR.org

We post a document about the SIGMM-sponsored ICMR conference rules in terms of its mission, and overall organization.

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SIGMM Technical Achievement Award <Call for Nominations>

for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing,
Communications and Applications

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2012

This award is presented every year to a researcher who has made significant and lasting contributions to multimedia computing, communication and applications. Outstanding technical contributions through research and practice are recognized. Towards this goal, contributions are considered from academia and industry that focus on major advances in multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia content analysis, multimedia systems, multimedia network protocols and services, and multimedia applications and interfaces. The award recognizes members of the community for long-term technical accomplishments or those who have made a notable impact through a significant technical innovation. The selection committee focuses on candidates' contributions as judged by...

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Report of ACM Multimedia Conference Review Committee

(24th January 2011)

Highlights of Key Review Recommendations

ACM Multimedia Conference Steering Committee to play an active role in ensuring the high quality of the conferences, including the appointment of general and technical program co-chairs.
Stricter criteria for choice of Technical Program Committee (TPC) members.
Change the paper review system from the current track-based to area-based.
Increase the number of accepted quality papers from the current 15-17% to around 20%.
To encourage and facilitate fuller and well-rounded conference participation experience.
To conduct such major review once in five or six years.

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Call for Nominatins for the new Nicolas Georganas TOMCCAP Award

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award

The Editor in Chief of ACM TOMCCAP invites you to nominate candidates for the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper.

The award is given annually to the author(s) of an outstanding paper published in ACM TOMCCAP within the previous legal year from January 1 until December 31. The award carries a plaque as well as travel funds to the ACM MM conference where the awardee(s) will be honored.

Nominations for the award must include the following:

A statement describing the technical contributions of the nominated paper and a description of the significance of the paper. The statement should not exceed 500 words. No self-nomination is accepted.

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2010 SIGMM Best PhD thesis award

SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

The 2010 winner of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Effrosyni Kokiopoulou (http://www.math.ethz.ch/~kokiopoe/). Dr. Kokiopoulou receives the award for her thesis - Geometry-Aware Analysis of High-Dimensional Visual Information Sets ? that she has done at the Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS4), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Kokiopoulou is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Seminar for Applied Mathematics at ETH Zurich.

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SIGMM FY'11 Annual Report

June 2010 – June 2011
Submitted by: Klara Nahrstedt, SIGMM Chair

SIGMM FY'11 Annual Report (SIGMM activities July 2010-June 2011) is posted on the Administrative Reports page. ( http://sigmm.org/reports )

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ACM SIGMM is Sad to Announce the Loss of Nicolas Georganas, distinguished professor and researcher

We are saddened by the passing of Nicolas D. Georganas, distinguished professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) and founding dean of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Engineering.
Nicolas was one of today's leading researchers in information technology, particularly multimedia systems. His work on performance design and analysis of computer-communication networks, dynamic/hybrid channel assignment in mobile cellular networks and multimedia communications has had a major impact on the field. Recently he...

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