Setting for NOSSDAV 2012

NOSSDAV 2012, the 22nd SIGMM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, was be held in Toronto, Canada, on June 7-8 2012. As in previous years, the workshop will continue to focus on both established and emerging research topics, high-risk high-return ideas and proposals, and future research directions in multimedia networking and systems, in a single-track format that encourages active participation and discussions among academic and industry researchers and practitioners. Read more →

The Video Browser Showdown (VBS) is a live video browsing competition where international researchers, working in the field of interactive video search, evaluate and demonstrate the efficiency of their tools in presence of the audience. The aim of the VBS is to evaluate video browsing tools for efficiency at known-item search (KIS) tasks with a well-defined data set in direct comparison to other tools. For each task the moderator presents a target clip on a shared screen that is visible to all participants. The participants use their own systems to perform an interactive search in the specified video file taken from a common data set and try to find the desired segment as fast as possible. Found segments are submitted to a server that is responsible for three tasks: (1) checking whether the submitted segment is correct, (2) measuring the task solve time and (3) computing scores for all teams and tasks. The performance of participating tools is evaluated in terms of successful submissions and search time. Read more →

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 →

International Conference on Content-based Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2008

The International Conference on Content-based Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) is a prominent technical conference in this field. Since 2007, CIVR has now become an official ACM Conference and an IAPR co-sponsored event (thanks to the initiatives by 2007 co-chairs Marcel Worring and Nicu Sebe). Read more →