Best Associate Editor Award, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), 2014 Annually, the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) honors one member of the Editorial Board with the TOMM Associate Editor of the Year Award. The purpose of the award is to recognize the …
Read more → ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present the 2014 SIGMM Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award to Dr. Zhigang Ma. The award committee considered Dr. Ma’s dissertation entitled “From Concepts to Events: A Progressive Process for Multimedia Content Analysis” worthy of the recognition as the proposed framework based …
Read more → The ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMM) and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) are pleased to announce the following awards for 2014 recognizing outstanding achievements and services made in the multimedia community. SIGMM Technical Achievement Award: Dr. Klara Nahrstedt SIGMM Rising Star Award: Dr. Meng …
Read more → The 2014 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Prof. Dr. Klara Nahrstedt. Klara Nahrstedt is a leading researcher in multimedia systems. She has made seminal contributions in QoS management for distributed multimedia systems. …
Read more → ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present the SIGMM Rising Star Award in its inaugural year to Dr. Meng Wang. This new award of ACM SIGMM recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of multimedia computing, communication and applications during …
Read more → The ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), 2014 The 2014 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award is presented to the paper “A framework for network aware caching for video on demand systems” (TOMM vol. 9, Issue 4) by …
Read more → Introduction Automatic detection and interpretation of social signals carried by voice, gestures, mimics, etc. will play a key-role for next-generation interfaces as it paves the way towards more intuitive and natural human-computer interaction. In this article we introduce Social Signal Interpretation (SSI), a framework for real-time recognition of social signals. …
Read more → The RITE (Reducing Internet Transport Latency) EU-project has, since its start nearly two years ago, worked to reduce the delay experienced when using the Internet. The approach is to make small, smart, changes to the mechanisms that makes Internet communication work. These mechanisms were developed to maximise throughput, but delay …
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Human physiological or behavioral characteristics are available uniquely to each individual as biometrics evidence and the biometrics system can be able to verify or identify a person correctly. Reliable person recognition is an important problem in diverse fields. Biometrics recognition based on distinctive personal traits, has the potential to become …
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