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
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
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
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
In this edition of the SIGMM Records, we present some background for the paper “Wireless network security: comparison of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) mechanism, WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) and RSN (Robust Security Network) security protocols”. Of all papers that were presented at workshops and conferences that were sponsored or co-sponsored by SIG Multimedia, it was the second most downloaded paper in the third quarter of 2008. We have therefore asked the authors to describe the background of their work, their motivation, the problems in performing the research, and possible errata. Read more
From the first ACM Multimedia conference in 1993 and continuing through the launch of ACM TOMCCAP in 2005 our community has been steadily growing and evolving. In the next 2 years there will be two new conferences supported by the SIGMM, namely the Multimedia Systems (MMSys) Conference and the International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), which are slated to be the most prominent meetings in their respective fields. Read more
The SIGMM Annual Report was submitted by to ACM on August 1, 2009. It reports the activities of SIG Multimedia during the previous year, including summary reports from or flagship conferences and workshops, an overview of all events that are sponsored or supported by SIGMM. You can find out about SIGMM’s leadership, the last SIGMM Retreat, SIGMM’s Awards and its online and offline publications. Read more
The ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is the flagship publication of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM). It focuses on multimedia computing (innovative I/O devices, storage systems, streaming media middleware, media coding, etc.), multimedia communication (real-time protocols, end-to-end streaming media, multicast protocols, etc.), and multimedia applications (distributed collaboration, video conferencing, 3D virtual environments, social multimedia, etc.). Read more
Professor Lawrence A. Rowe
The 2009 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Dr. Lawrence A. Rowe. Dr. Rowe is currently President of FX Palo Alto Laboratory and an Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more
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