SIGMM Records
JPEG Column: 84th JPEG Meeting in Brussels, Belgium
The 84th JPEG meeting was held in Brussels, Belgium. This meeting was characterised by significant progress in most of JPEG projects and also exploratory studies. JPEG XL, the new image coding system, has issued the Committee Draft, giving shape to this new effective solution for the future of image coding. JPEG Pleno, the standard … Read more
MPEG Column: 127th MPEG Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden
The original blog post can be found at the Bitmovin Techblog and has been modified/updated here to focus on and highlight research aspects. The 127th MPEG meeting concluded on July 12, 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden with the following topics: Versatile Video Coding (VVC) enters formal approval stage, experts predict 35-60% improvement over HEVC … Read more
The V3C1 Dataset: Advancing the State of the Art in Video Retrieval
Download In order to download the video dataset as well as its provided analysis data, please follow the instructions described here: https://github.com/klschoef/V3C1Analysis/blob/master/README.md Introduction Standardized datasets are of vital importance in multimedia research, as they form the basis for reproducible experiments and evaluations. In the area of video retrieval, widely used … Read more
JPEG Column: 83rd JPEG Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland
The 83rd JPEG meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting was very dense due to the multiple activities taking place. Beyond the multiple standardization activities, like the new JPEG XL, JPEG Pleno, JPEG XS, HTJ2K or JPEG Systems, the 83rd JPEG meeting had the report and discussion of a new exploration study … Read more
MPEG Column: 126th MPEG Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland
The original blog post can be found at the Bitmovin Techblog and has been modified/updated here to focus on and highlight research aspects. The 126th MPEG meeting concluded on March 29, 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland with the following topics: Three Degrees of Freedom Plus (3DoF+) – MPEG evaluates responses to the Call for … Read more
Report from ACM MM 2018 – by Ana García del Molino
Seoul, what a beautiful place to host the premier conference on multimedia! Living in never-ending summer Singapore, I fell in love with the autumn colours of this city. The 26th edition of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia was held on October 22-26 of 2018 at the Lotte Hotel in … Read more
On System QoE: Merging the system and the QoE perspectives
With Quality of Experience (QoE) research having made significant advances over the years, increased attention is being put on exploiting this knowledge from a service/network provider perspective in the context of the user-centric evaluation of systems. Current research investigates the impact of system/service mechanisms, their implementation or configurations on the … Read more
Multidisciplinary Column: An Interview with Max Mühlhäuser
Could you tell us a bit about your background, and what the road to your current position was? Well, this road is marked by wonderful people who inspired me and sparked my interest in the research fields I pursued. In addition, it is marked by two of my major … Read more
An interview with Professor Pål Halvorsen
Describe your journey into research from your youth up to the present. What foundational lessons did you learn from this journey? Why were you initially attracted to multimedia? I remember when I was about 14 years old and had an 8th grade project where we were to identify what we … Read more
Opinion Column: Evolution of Topics in the Multimedia Community
For this edition of the SIGMM Opinion Column, we asked members of the Multimedia community to share their impressions about the shift of scientific topics in the community over the years, namely the evolution of “traditional” and “emerging” Multimedia topics. This subject has emerged in several conversations over the 2 … Read more
