SIGMM Records
MPEG Column: 125th MPEG Meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco
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 125th MPEG meeting concluded on January 18, 2019 in Marrakesh, Morocco with the following topics: Network-Based Media Processing (NBMP) – MPEG promotes NBMP to Committee Draft stage 3DoF+ … Read more
JPEG Column: 82nd JPEG Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal
The 82nd JPEG meeting was held in Lisbon, Portugal. Highlights of the meeting are progress on JPEG XL, JPEG XS, HTJ2K, JPEG Pleno, JPEG Systems and JPEG reference software. JPEG has been the most common representation format of digital images for more than 25 years. Other image representation formats have … Read more
Solving Complex Issues through Immersive Narratives — Does QoE Play a Role?
Introduction A transdisciplinary dialogue and innovative research, including technical and artistic research as well as digital humanities are necessary to solve complex issues. We need to support and produce creative practices, and engage in a critical reflection about the social and ethical dimensions of our current technology developments. At the … Read more
Report from ACM ICMR 2018 – by Cathal Gurrin
Multimedia computing, indexing, and retrieval continue to be one of the most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. ACM ICMR is the premier international conference that brings together experts and practitioners in the field for an annual conference. The eighth ACM International Conference on … Read more
ACM Multimedia 2019 and Reproducibility in Multimedia Research
The first months of the new calendar year, multimedia researchers traditionally are hard at work on their ACM Multimedia submissions. (This year the submission deadline is 1 April.) Questions of reproducibility, including those of data set availability and release, are at the forefront of everyone’s mind. In this edition of … Read more
SISAP 2018: 11th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications
The International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in the area of similarity data management. It aims at the technological problems shared by numerous application domains, such as data mining, information retrieval, multimedia, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational biology, geography, … Read more
MPEG Column: 124th MPEG Meeting in Macau, China
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 MPEG press release comprises the following aspects: Point Cloud Compression – MPEG promotes a video-based point cloud compression technology to the Committee Draft stage Compressed Representation … Read more
JPEG Column: 81st JPEG Meeting in Vancouver, Canada
The 81st JPEG meeting was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at which significant efforts were put into the analysis of the responses to the call for proposals on the next generation image coding standard, nicknamed JPEG XL, that is expected to provide a solution for image format with improved … Read more
Towards an Integrated View on QoE and UX: Adding the Eudaimonic Dimension
In the past, research on Quality of Experience (QoE) has frequently been limited to networked multimedia applications, such as the transmission of speech, audio and video signals. In parallel, usability and User Experience (UX) research addressed human-machine interaction systems which either focus on a functional (pragmatic) or aesthetic (hedonic) aspect … Read more
JPEG Column: 80th JPEG Meeting in Berlin, Germany
The 80th JPEG meeting was held in Berlin, Germany, from 7 to 13 July 2018. During this meeting, JPEG issued a record number of ballots and output documents, spread through the multiple activities taking place. These record numbers are very revealing of the level of commitment of JPEG standardisation committee. A strong effort … Read more
