The 16th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference and its associated workshops (MMVE 2025 and NOSSDAV’25) were held from March 31st to April 4th 2025, in Stellenbosch, South Africa. With the intention to create a diverse and inclusive community for multimedia systems, several activities were followed. In this column, we provide a brief overview …
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JPEG assesses responses to its Call for Proposals on Lossless Coding of Visual Events The 107th JPEG meeting was held in Brussels, Belgium, from April 12 to 18, 2025. During this meeting, the JPEG Committee assessed the responses to its call for proposals on JPEG XE, an International Standard for …
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The 3rd edition of the Spring School on Social XR organised by Distributed and Interactive Systems group (DIS) at CWI in Amsterdam took place from 7 to 10 April 2025. The event attracted 30 students from different disciplines (technology, social sciences, and humanities) and countries from the world (Europe but …
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The 16th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (with the associated workshops: NOSSDAV 2025 and MMVE 2025) was held from March 31st to April 4th 2025, in Stellenbosch, South Africa. By choosing this location, the steering committee marked a milestone for SIGMM: MMSys became the very first SIGMM conference to take place …
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Introduction From May 5th to 9th, 2025 Meta hosted the plenary meeting of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) in their headquarters in Menlo Park (CA, United Sates). Around 150 participants registered to the meeting, coming from industry and academic institutions from 26 different countries worldwide. The meeting was dedicated …
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