SIGMM Award 2009

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…

February 22th-23th, 2010, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Important Dates:
* September 25, 2009: Full Paper Submission
* November 1, 2009: Notification of Acceptance
* December 1, 2009: Final Paper Due

Over the years, ACM SIG Multimedia has received numerous requests to create a multimedia systems conference, targeted at the systems aspects of handling audio, image, video, and graphics data. We are pleased to announce the First Annual ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) Conference to be held February 22-23, 2010 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
www.mmsys.org
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June 2008 - June 2009

The ACM SIGMM Annual Report for FY 2009 has been posted.

The first (2008) Journal Citation Report for TOMCCAP that appeared in June 2009

ACM TOMCCAP is ranked highest among the current multimedia publications According to the Computer Science- Information Systems rankings. Please see a screenshot of the rankings based on search keyword "multimedia": TOMCCAP, IEEE ToM, IEEE Multimedia, MMSJ, and MTAP.
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The ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

We are looking for a new Editor-in-Chief whose term will begin in January 2010. He/she will be appointed for three years, with the possibility of one three-year renewal. We are looking for a well-established person with a good record for his/her research achievements in multimedia and for his/her services to the community. The ACM evaluation criteria for the EiC can be found at http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/evaluation
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New team begins on July 1, 2009 for the next two years

This new team was elected for the next two years

• Klara Nahrstedt - chair of SIGMM (klara@illinois.edu)
• Rainer Lienhart - vice chair of SIGMM (Rainer.Lienhart@informatik.uni-augsburg.de)
• Mohan Kankanhalli - conference chair of SIGMM (mohan@comp.nus.edu.sg)

September 14th-16th, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA

Regular paper submission: May 10th, 2009 (extended)
Demo descriptions: May 10th, 2009 (extended)
Workshop and special sessions: Please refer to ICSC website.
Conference: September 14th-16th, 2009

The third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2009) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying the emerging research topics and defining the future of the field. The event is located in Berkeley, California. The technical program of ICSC2009 includes workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited.
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October 27-30, 2009 - Berkeley Art Museum & UC Berkeley

The 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC09) embraces the broad theme of Everyday Creativity. This year the conference will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum (CA, USA), and asks: How do we enable everyone to enjoy their creative potential? How do our creative activities differ? What do they have in common? What languages can we use to talk to each other? How do shared languages support collective action? How can we incubate innovation?
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July 3, 2009 - Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico

Human health and performance are broad terms that describe the quality of life but are difficult to quantify. Human health can be broadly identified by two components: physical health and mental health. While there is no "official" definition for mental health (considering cultural differences and subjective assessments), physical health is typically attributed to health of various body organs including muscles, bones, and joints. Human performance can be considered as "focused behavior" or "purposeful work" and hence performance is typically domain specific such as sports performance, or performance of a physically challenged person.
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Analytics for Experts - by Dr. Gerald Friedland from ICSI

Even though the mathematical foundations are very similar, in the past, artificial intelligence research seemed to be strictly divided according to the different types of data that were to be analyzed. Therefore many research groups work on either speech processing, computer vision, or video analysis.
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SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

The 2008 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Professor Ralf Steinmetz from the Technical University Darmstadt in Germany. Professor Steinmetz receives this award "for pioneering work in multimedia communications and the fundamentals of multimedia synchronization". The SIGMM award will be given to Professor Steinmetz at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2008 in October.

ZDNet Asia (Singapore, Oct. 23) ―

For winning the Star Challenge 2008 on Thursday, the team comprising three researchers at the National University of Singapore Lab for Media Search walked away with $100,000 and the honor of having the most efficient multimedia retrieval technology. Apart from the NUS, teams from the United State's University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, China's Peking University, France's Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble and Japan's National Institute of Informatics made it to the final round. The challenge was organized by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research.

July 2007 ― June 2008

The ACM SIGMM Annual Report for FY 2008 has been posted.

SIGMM Chair's Message