JPEG Column: 109th JPEG Meeting in Nuremberg, Germany

JPEG XS developers awarded the Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy®. The 109th JPEG meeting was held in Nuremberg, Germany, from 12 to 17 October 2025. This JPEG meeting began with the excellent news that JPEG XS developers Fraunhofer IIS and intoPIX were awarded the Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy® for … Read more

Reports from ACM Multimedia 2025

URL:  https://acmmm2025.org Date: Oct 27 – Oct 31, 2025 Place:  Dublin, Ireland General Chairs: Cathal Gurrin, Klaus Schoeffmann, Min Zhang, Adapt Centre & DCU, Klagenfurt University, Tsinghua University Introduction The ACM Multimedia Conference 2025, held in Dublin, Ireland from October 27 to October 31, 2025, continued its tradition as a premier international … Read more

ACM SIGMM Multimodal Reasoning Workshop

The ACM SIGMM Multimodal Reasoning Workshop was held on 8–9 November 2025 at Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna) in Hybrid mode. Organised by Dr. Sriparna Saha, faculty member of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Patna and supported by ACM SIGMM, the two-day event brought together … Read more

Quality of Multimedia Experience Meets Machine Intelligence

1. Why QoE meets Machine Intelligence Now [Multimedia systems are evolving towards AI-driven, adaptive services, leading to a natural convergence of QoE and machine intelligence. In this context, machine intelligence can empower QoE through learning-based, context-aware, and semantic-driven modelling and optimization. At the same time, QoE can guide machine intelligence … Read more

MPEG Column: 153rd MPEG Meeting

The 153rd MPEG meeting took place online from January 19-23, 2026. The official MPEG press release can be found here. This report highlights key outcomes from the meeting, with a focus on research directions relevant to the ACM SIGMM community: MPEG Roadmap Exploration on MPEG Gaussian Splat Coding (GSC) MPEG … Read more