ACM SIGMM Executive Committee Newsletter – 1, 2022

The Special Interest Group in Multimedia of ACM, ACM SIGMM, 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 organization of conferences and workshops, supporting student travel to such events, discounted registrations, two regional … Read more

JPEG Column: 95th JPEG Meeting

JPEG issues a call for proposals for JPEG Fake Media The 95th JPEG meeting was held online from 25 to 29 April 2022. A Call for Proposals (CfP) was issued for JPEG Fake Media that aims at a standardisation framework for secure annotation of modifications in media assets. With this … Read more

ACM SIGMM Executive Committee Newsletter – 1, 2022

The Special Interest Group in Multimedia of ACM, ACM SIGMM, 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 organization of conferences and workshops, supporting student travel to such events, discounted registrations, two regional … Read more

Two Interviews with renown Datasets Researchers

This issue of the Dataset Column provides two interviews with the researchers responsible for novel datasets of recent years. In particular, we first interview Nacho Reimat (https://www.cwi.nl/people/nacho-reimat), the scientific programmer responsible for the CWIPC-SXR, one of the first datasets on dynamic, interactive volumetric media. Second, we interview Pierre-Etienne Martin (https://www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cultural-psychology/staff/pierre-etienne-martin/), … Read more

Multidisciplinary Column: Lessons Learned from a Multidisciplinary Hands-on Course on Interfaces for Inclusive Music Making

This short article reports on lessons learned from a multidisciplinary hands-on course that I co-taught in the academic winter term 2021/2022. Over the course of the term, I co-advised a group of 4 students who explored designing interfaces for Musiklusion [1], a project focused on inclusive music making using digital … Read more