Category Archives: Editorial

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community, welcome to the third issue of the SIGMM Records in 2012.

As you can see, the format of the Records as changed dramatically with this issue, and the migration is going to be completed in the coming months. The new system is meant to make the Records more valuable and interactive for your benefit, and we hope the long wait for the third issue was worth your while. First of all, your submissions will become visible on the front page of the Records as soon as they have been approved by one of the editors, and they will be included in the following issue. The submission of standard content formats has become much easier than before: select your contribution from the pulld0wn menu, add your information and submit it, and see immediately on the submission page that your submission was successful. You can of course also send your contributions and any questions to enews-contributions@sigmm.org.

We are furthermore inviting a new category: Please tell us about your ongoing research projects! What are your goals and achievements? Who are your partners? How are your publications connected?

Of course, this issue has also some content: SIGMM’s 2012 awards have been handed out at ACM Multimedia in October in Nara. In this issue you can read about the SIGMM award for outstanding contributions to multimedia, the best PhD thesis award 2012 and the first ever awarded Nicholas D. Georganas Award for the best TOMCCAP paper.

TOMCCAP announces a major policy chang; you can read about the startup foodQuest, the Open Source project Ambulant, and the latest MPEG meeting.  You can read PhD thesis summaries provided by a two candidates who have recently passed their doctoral exams.

Last but most certainly not least, you find pointers to the latest issues of TOMCCAP and MMSJ, and several job announcements.

We hope that you enjoy this issue of the Records.

The Editors
Stephan Kopf
Viktor Wendel
Lei Zhang
Pradeep Atrey
Christian Timmerer
Pablo Cesar
Carsten Griwodz

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,Welcome to the second issue of the SIGMM Records in 2012.

We provide you with reports from several recent events of importance for the multimedia community. In Geneva, the 100th MPEG meeting was celebrated, which included a reception of three prestigious grants to MPEG. The Video Browser Showndown was held at the Multimedia Modeling conference, and we report from there. And NOSSDAV 2012 was recently held in Toronto, and we present a short report from participants. Read more →

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the first issue of the SIGMM Records in 2012.

We provide you with a report from the ACM Multimedia 2011, including links to the digital library for all papers, of course. As part of the conference, the Grand Challenge was arranged. The report from the 2011 Grand Challenge can be found in this issue, as well as the Grand Challenges that have been posed by industry for the next round. You should read the article and attack the 2012 Grand Challenges in time for ACM Multimedia 2012. Read more →

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the December issue of the SIGMM Records in 2011.

We can announce the first call for nominations for ACM SIGMM’s new award, the Nicolas Georganas TOMCCAP Award, which will be awarded for the best paper that was published in ACM TOMCCAP in 2011. You can also find the call for another award, the ACM History Fellowship award. Read more →

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the September issue of the SIGMM Records in 2011.

We announce this year’s winner of the SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. The award will be presented at the ACM Multimedia Conference 2011.

Christian Timmerer has newly joined the SIGMM Records as a columnist who will regularly inform you about the developments in MPEG standardization. Read his report from the 97th MPEG meeting.

You can read about the GameDays 2011, where scientists meet business people to discuss demands and learn about the latest research in serious games.

In the SGIMM education column, our new columnist Pradeep K. Atrey presents the course “Multimedia Systems Design” that is taught by Klara Nahrstedt at UIUC.

You can also read the PhD thesis summaries provided by four candidates who have recently passed their doctoral exams, you can find out about the top 10 most downloaded papers of SIGMM-sponsored events, and find shortcuts to the latest journal publications in TOMCCAP and MMSJ.

The Editors

Stephan Kopf
Viktor Wendel
Lei Zhang
Pradeep Atrey
Christian Timmerer
Carsten Griwodz

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the second issue of the SIGMM Records in 2011!

Learn about five newly concluded PhD theses in the multimedia area. Summaries of the work of five young researchers are included in this issue of the Records to raise your interest, and to point you to the right to look for further information. Read more →

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the SIGMM Records in 2011!

This exciting issue features an interview again: you can read about commercial game developers’ views on various questions of interest for multimedia researchers. Researchers hear about developers’ view on serious games, the role of research communities for their work, and contributions that researchers can make to their work. Read more →

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the last SIGMM Records of 2010!

When you look for the Records on the web pages of SIGMM, located conveniently at http://sigmm.org/records, you will notice that accessing the Records these days brings you to the server that formerly hosted sigmm.org at UT Dallas. The web team is working with the other volunteers who contributed to the old pages in migrating to the new server, which means adapting to a new layout and a completely different CMS. Please don’t be annoyed if you find broken links pointing to sigmm.org/path/to/page, please help us to find and fix those problems instead. You can probably still find the content at sigmm.utdallas.edu/path/to/page. Read more →

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the latest issue of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!

We have to start this issue of the Records by informing you about the passing of Prof. Nicolas Georganas. Whether you knew Nicolas well or not, we invite you to read the appreciations by Shervin Shirmohammadi and Larry Rowe.

Fortunately, we can also pass on good news. You can read about the receivers about the SIGMM’s two prestigious awards, the SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications and the SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. Read more →

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the latest issue of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!

This issue, we want to present several new activities of the SIG Multimedia that require your contributions.

First go the SIGMM history archives. These archives are meant to prevent SIGMM’s conferences from being forgotten over time. The ACM Multimedia conference established the position of preservation chair a few years ago, and other conferences and workshops take care of their history as well, and have provided it to the SIG’s preservation team. For some events, both a long time ago and recent, the history chairs need your help. Please read their call to see if you can help. Read more →