Dr. Yong Rui, General Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia 2009, became one of 58 ACM Distinguished Scientists inducted in 2009 for contribution in multimedia analysis, indexing and retrieval. The Distinguished Member Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field.
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Editorial
Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,
Welcome to the second year of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!
In this issue, we present and explain to you three calls for contributions that are highly important for the multimedia community. You can find the call for nominations for the SIGMM Award for Outstanding Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications that will be awarded for the third time this year. Read more
ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2009
CIVR is one of the most important and influential conferences in the area of image and video analysis and retrieval and gathers many important researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. Following this tradition, CIVR 2009 has been a very successful event. This year 138 submissions from 29 countries were received and, after being reviewed by the Program Committee members, 45 were accepted for presentation (18 orals and 27 posters). Additionally, the program included two excellent invited presentations given by Prof. Luis von Ahn from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, and Prof. Luc van Gool, from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Leuven (Belgium). Read more
Editorial
Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,
Welcome to the fourth issue of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!
In this thesis we offer you a new kind of article. Based on an initiative by Mr. Mu from Lancaster University, we interviewed several video quality experts. Those of you who subscribe to SIGMM’s goal of evaluating research in terms quality-of-experience will hopefully find the experts’ insights valuable. Read more
Call for Contribution to SIGMM Educational Portal
Dear colleagues:
It is our great pleasure to launch the exciting SIGMM Educational Portal in order to promote educational related resource sharing among the multimedia community. We plan to build a comprehensive destination for information such as multimedia-related degree programs, courses, audio/video materials, and textbooks. Read more
ACM Multimedia Conference Review Committee
Dear SIGMM Members,
our flagship conference, the ACM Multimedia, has now existed for existed for 17 years. And still, the conference organization is changing every year. With an approach that puts new chairs and entirely new organizing committees in charge every year in a bidding process, ACM Multimedia is highly dynamic. However, this dynamicity comes with major downsides. Every committee makes changes, and because continuity is not guaranteed, good changes do often get lost, while bad ones persist. An institutional memory is missing. Read more
An Interview with Video Quality Experts
For multimedia researchers, improvement of users’ quality-of-experience is a more valuable goal that an easily measurable quality-of-service. Consequently, researchers use video quality evaluation metrics to assess whether they can increase or maintain it. In this issue, we publish an interview with renowned video quality experts. Read more
Report from NOSSDAV 2009
International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV)
The 19th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2009) was held in Williamsburg, Virginia from 3 – 5 June, 2009. NOSSDAV 2009 adhered to the workshop’s long tradition of focusing on emerging topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research. The main goals of the workshop are to accommodate timely exchange of research results and to foster lively, constructive discussions on potentially controversial concepts and solutions. Read more
Editorial
Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,
Welcome to the third issue of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!
This issue is full of good news from the SIGMM and its members. First, we can announce that Professor Lawrence A. Rowe has been awarded the SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. He will be presented with the reward at ACM Multimedia in Beijing, where it is held from October 19-24, 2009. We want to congratulate Professor Rowe already now! Read more
Shervin Shirmohammadi selected as ACM TOMCCAP’s Associate Editor of the Year
Professor Shervin Shirmohammadi is selected as the 2009 Associate Editor of the Year for the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications.