Organizer: Prof. Mohamed Daoudi, Institut Mines-Télécom Nord Europe (IMT Nord Europe), France. Co-Organizers: Prof. Ahmed Tamtaoui Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications (INPT), Morocco, Prof. Mohamed Khalil (MorroccoAI), Morocco, Jamal Benhamou (Soft Center), Morocco. In September 2025, it was held the second edition of the Summer School on Multimodal Foundation …
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Editors: Maria Torres Vega (KU Leuven, Belgium), Karel Fliegel (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic), Mihai Gabriel Constantin (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania), In this Dataset Columns, we continue the tradition of the previous three columns by reviewing some of the notable events related to open datasets and …
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JPEG XE reaches Committee Draft stage at the 108th JPEG meeting The 108th JPEG meeting was held in Daejeon, Republic of Korea, from 29 June to 4 July 2025. During this meeting, the JPEG Committee finalised the Committee Draft of JPEG XE, an upcoming International Standard for lossless coding of …
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Since my first QoMEX (international conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience) in 2015 (Costa Navarino, Greece), I have considered it my conference and the attendees, my research family. It has thus become my special yearly event to connect with familiar faces and meet the next generation of researchers in the field. …
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The 152nd MPEG meeting took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from October 7 to October 11, 2025. The official MPEG press release can be found here. This column highlights key points from the meeting, amended with research aspects relevant to the ACM SIGMM community: MPEG Systems received an Emmy® Award for …
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AI evaluation is undergoing a paradigm shift from focusing solely on algorithmic accuracy of AI models to emphasizing experience-based assessment of human interactions with AI systems. Under frameworks like the EU AI Act, evaluation now considers intended purpose, risk, transparency, human oversight, and real-world robustness alongside accuracy. Quality of Experience …
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Abstract This column introduces the now completed ITU-T P.1204 video quality model standards for assessing sequences up to UHD/4K resolution. Initially developed over two years by ITU-T Study Group 12 (Question Q14/12) and VQEG, the work used a large dataset of 26 subjective tests (13 for training, 13 for validation), …
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