ACM SIGMM Call for Funding for Special Initiatives 2024
Dear Colleagues,
TheACM SIGMM (Special Interest Group in Multimedia)provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in all aspects of multimedia computing, communication, storage, and applications. We do this through our sponsorship and organisation of conferences and workshops, supporting student travel to such events, discounted registrations, two regional chapters, recognition of excellence and achievement through an awards scheme and we inform the community of our activities through the SIGMM Records and through mailing lists.
The winner of the SIGMM Rising Star for 2023 is Dr. Chang Xu for his significant contributions in efficient and generative deep representation learning of multimedia data.
Dr. Chang Xu is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of Sydney. He has been honored with the University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Early Career Research. His research interests encompass machine learning algorithms and their applications in computer vision and multimedia, including weakly supervised machine learning, deep generative learning, and the design and optimization of deep neural network architectures. Dr. Xu has an impressive publication record, with over 100 papers published in...
ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
The 2023 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Professor Wenwu Zhu. The award is given in recognition of for his outstanding, pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of Multimedia Communications and Analysis and for outstanding and continued service to the multimedia community.
Professor Wenwu Zhu is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS, SPIE, a member of Academia Europaea, a worldwide recognized leader in Multimedia Communications and Computing with significant and long-lasting impact on academia and industry. His contributions have...
Invitation to Host ACM Multimedia 2026 in the Americas
The ACM Multimedia Steering Committee invites prospective parties to submit proposals to host and organize the ACM Multimedia conference (ACM MM) in 2026.
ACM Multimedia is the flagship conference supported by ACM SIGMM, the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia. Since the founding of ACM SIGMM in 1993, ACM Multimedia has been the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. The conference hosts technical sessions covering all aspects of multimedia, as well as industry-oriented sessions such as the multimedia grand challenge or the industrial track, which recognize those research works with significant industrial values. We welcome brave new ideas on shaping the research landscape, open source software...
The ACM Multimedia Asia (MM Asia) Steering Committee invites prospective parties to submit proposals to host and organize the ACM Multimedia Asia conference in 2025.
ACM Multimedia Asia (MM Asia) is a newly established international conference to showcase the scientific achievements and industrial innovations in the multimedia field. Its mission is to illuminate the state of the art in multimedia computing by bringing together researchers and practitioners. It is essential to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality research papers and for sharing practitioner experience. The past ACM Multimedia Asia conferences were successfully organized in Beijing of...
Invitation to Host ACM Multimedia 2025 in Europe or Africa
The ACM Multimedia Steering Committee invites prospective parties to submit proposals to host and organize the ACM Multimedia conference (ACM MM) in 2025.
ACM Multimedia is the flagship conference supported by ACM SIGMM, the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia. Since the founding of ACM SIGMM in 1993, ACM Multimedia has been the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. The conference hosts technical sessions covering all aspects of multimedia, as well as industry-oriented sessions such as the multimedia grand challenge or the industrial track, which recognize those research works with significant industrial values. We welcome brave new ideas on shaping the research landscape, open source software...
The winner of the SIGMM Rising Star for 2022 is Jianlong Fu for his significant contributions in Multimedia Search and Mining.
Dr Jianlong Fu is currently a Senior Research Manager with the Multimedia Search and Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). He is now leading Multimedia Search and Mining Group, focusing on computer vision, image graphics, vision and language, especially on fine-grained image/video recognition and detection, multimedia content editing, personal media experience of browsing, searching, sharing and storytelling. He has shipped core technologies to several Microsoft products, including Windows, Office, Bing Multimedia Search, Azure Media Service, XiaoIce, etc.
ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
The 2022 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Professor Alan Smeaton. The award is given in recognition of his outstanding, pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of multimedia information analysis and management, and for outstanding and continued service to the multimedia community.
Alan Smeaton is a significant researcher and contributor to the arena of multimedia information analysis and management and is highly deserving of the above award. The basis for the nomination is his impactful work on benchmarking, the breadth of his contributions in...
Recognizes the authors of a paper published either 10, 11 or 12 years previously at an SIGMM sponsored or co-sponsored conference which has had the most impact and influence on the field of Multimedia in terms of research, development, product or ideas. The award includes an honorarium of $1,000 and a certificate.
This year the selection committee was:
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, US
Shin’ichi Satoh, NII Japan, General Co-Chair, ACM MULTMEDIA 2022
Laura Toni, UCL, UK, Technical Program Co-Chair, ACM MULTMEDIA 2022
Overall Winner and Winner in the Category “Multimedia Analysis,...
The winner of the SIGMM Rising Star for 2023 is Dr. Chang Xu for his significant contributions in efficient and generative deep representation learning of multimedia data.
The 2023 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Professor Wenwu Zhu. The award is given in recognition of for his outstanding, pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of Multimedia Communications and Analysis and for outstanding and continued service to the multimedia community.
The winner of the SIGMM Rising Star for 2022 is Jianlong Fu for his significant contributions in Multimedia Search and Mining.
The 2022 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Professor Alan Smeaton. The award is given in recognition of his outstanding, pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of multimedia information analysis and management, and for outstanding and continued service to the multimedia community.
