Dear Member of the SIGMM Community, Welcome to the brand new ACM SIG Multimedia Records! The SIGMM Records are the SIG Multimedia’s quarterly newsletter that provides SIGMM members with a channel for disseminating their achievements to the research community at large. Through the SIGMM Records, SIGMM members can contribute opinions, …
Read more → For Computer Vision People: How to talk to a Speech Researcher; For Speech People: How to talk to a Computer Vision Researcher Abstract Even though the mathematical foundations are very similar, in the past, artificial intelligence research seemed to be strictly divided according to the different types of data that …
Read more → The sixteen ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2008), was held October 27- 31, 2008 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Vancouver, situated on Canada’s east coast, enjoys a milder climate than much of Canada. As hosts to the 2010 winter Olympics, it boasts a plethora …
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Creating high quality E-Learning material is a time and cost consuming task. Re-using existing material could reduce these costs. But often a one-to-one reuse of the existing material is not possible, as the new usage scenario differs from the original one. If, for example, a learning resource created for company …
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Over the past few decades we have been experiencing a data explosion; massive amounts of data are increasingly collected and multimedia databases, such as YouTube and Flickr, are rapidly expanding. At the same time rapid technological advancements in mobile devices and vision sensors have led to the emergence of novel …
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The importance of digital information collections is growing. Collections are typically represented with text-only, in a linear list format, which turns out to be a weak representation for cognition. We learned this from empirical research in cognitive psychology, and by conducting a study to develop an understanding of current practices …
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This thesis presents a number of modified or novel techniques for the analysis of music audio for the purposes of classifying it according genre or implementing so called `search-by-example’ systems, which recommend music to users and generate playlists and personalised radio stations. Novel procedures for the parameterisation of music audio …
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MM2009: Introducing The Multimedia Grand Challenge This year’s ACM Multimedia Conference is introducing a new program: the Multimedia Grand Challenge (or, MMGC). Despite its name, the Grand Challenge is in fact a set of problems and challenges from various industry leaders. The challenges, from Google, Yahoo!, Nokia and other leaders …
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This award is presented every year to a researcher who has made significant and lasting contributions to multimedia computing, communication and applications. Outstanding technical contributions through research and practice is recognized. Towards this goal, contributions are considered from academia and industry that focus on major advances in multimedia including multimedia …
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This award will be presented every year to a researcher whose PhD thesis has made outstanding contributions and has the potential of very high impact in multimedia computing, communication and applications.
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ContextMiner is a framework to collect, analyze, and present contextual information along with the data. It is based on an idea that while describing or archiving an object, contextual information helps to make sense of that object or to preserve it better. ContextMiner helps one (1) run automated crawls on …
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TubeKit is a toolkit for creating YouTube crawlers. It allows one to build one’s own crawler that can crawl YouTube based on a set of seed queries and collect up to 17 different attributes for a video. TubeKit assists in all the phases of this process starting database creation to …
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