Nitish Nagesh (@nitish_nagesh) is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department, the University of California, Irvine, USA. He has been awarded as Best Social Media Reporter of ACM Multimedia 2022 conference. To celebrate this award, Nitish Nagesh reported on his wonderful experience at ACM Multimedia 2022 as follows. I was excited …
Read more → ACM Multimedia 2022 was held in a hybrid format in Lisbon, Portugal from October 10-14, 2022. This was the first local participation in three years for many participants, as the strict travel restrictions associated with Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021 made it difficult to participate locally by travelling out of …
Read more → Introduction Regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2021 and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 “climate action”, urgent action is needed against climate change and global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the next few years [1]. This urgency also applies to the energy consumption of digital technologies. …
Read more → In this Dataset Column, we present a review of some of the notable events related to open datasets and benchmarking competitions in the field of multimedia. This year’s selection highlights the wide range of topics and datasets currently of interest to the community. Some of the events covered in this …
Read more → In this Dataset Column, we present a review of some of the notable events related to open datasets and benchmarking competitions in the field of multimedia. This year’s selection highlights the wide range of topics and datasets currently of interest to the community. Some of the events covered in this …
Read more → In this Dataset Column, we present a review of some of the notable events related to open datasets and benchmarking competitions in the field of multimedia. This year’s selection highlights the wide range of topics and datasets currently of interest to the community. Some of the events covered in this …
Read more → JPEG initiates specification on fake media based on responses to its call for proposals The 97th JPEG meeting was held online from 24 to 28 October 2022. JPEG received responses to the Call for Proposals (CfP) on JPEG Fake Media, the first multimedia international standard designed to facilitate the secure …
Read more → After several years of online meetings, the 140th MPEG meeting was held as a face-to-face meeting in Mainz, Germany, and the official press release can be found here and comprises the following items: MPEG evaluates the Call for Proposals on Video Coding for Machines MPEG evaluates Call for Evidence on …
Read more → Introduction This column provides an overview of the last Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) plenary meeting, which took place from 12 to 16 December 2022. Around 100 participants from 21 different countries around the world registered for the meeting that was organized online by Brightcove (United Kingdom). During the five …
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