Call for Nominations: Editor-In-Chief of ACM TOMM

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) (http://tomm.acm.org/) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting … Read more

MPEG Column: 112th MPEG Meeting

This blog post is also available at at bitmovin tech blog and blog.timmerer.com. The 112th MPEG meeting in Warsaw, Poland was a special meeting for me. It was my 50th MPEG meeting which roughly accumulates to one year of MPEG meetings (i.e., one year of my life I’ve spend in … Read more

ACM SIGMM/TOMM 2015 Award Announcements

The ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMM) and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) are pleased to announce the following awards for 2015 recognizing outstanding achievements and services made in the multimedia community. SIGMM Technical Achievement Award: Dr. Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore SIGMM Rising … Read more

ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

The 2015 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Prof. Dr. Tat-Seng Chua. The award is given in recognition of his pioneering contributions to multimedia, text and social media processing. Tat-Seng Chua is a … Read more

Announcement of ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2015

ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present this year’s Rising Star Award in multimedia computing, communications and applications to Dr. Yu-Gang Jiang. The ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of multimedia computing, communication and … Read more

ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications 2015

Awardee ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present the 2015 SIGMM Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award to Dr. Ting Yao and Honorable Mention recognition to Dr. Britta Meixner. The award committee considers Dr. Yao’s dissertation entitled “Multimedia Search by Self, External, and Crowdsourcing Knowledge” worthy of the … Read more

2015 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award

The 2015 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award is provided to the paper “A Quality of Experience Model for Haptic Virtual Environments” (TOMM vol.10, Issue 3) by Abdelwahab Hamam, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik and Jihad Alja’am. The purpose of the named award … Read more

TOMM Associate Editor of the Year Award 2015

Annually, the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) honors one member of the Editorial Board with the TOMM Associate Editor of the Year Award. The purpose of the award is the distinction of excellent work for ACM TOMM and hence also for the whole … Read more

Image indexing and retrieval with Yael

Introduction Yael is a library implementing computationally intensive functions used in large scale image retrieval, such as neighbor search, clustering and inverted files. The library offers interfaces for C, Python and Matlab. The motivation of Yael is twofold. We aim at providing:  core and optimized instructions and methods commonly used … Read more

PhD Thesis Summary

Honglin Yu

Understanding the popularity evolution of online media has become an important research topic. There are a number of key questions which have high scientific significance and wide practical relevance. In particular, what are the statistical characteristics of online user behaviors? What are the main factors that affect online collective attention? … Read more

PhD Thesis Summary

Mario Montagud Climent

Nowadays, we are witnessing a transition from physical togetherness towards networked togetherness around media content. Novel forms of shared media experiences are gaining momentum, allowing geographically distributed users to concurrently consume the same media content while socially interacting (e.g., via text, audio or video chat). Relevant use cases are, for … Read more

PhD Thesis Summary

Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães

Creating compelling multimedia productions is a non-trivial problem. This is true for both professional and personal content. For professional content, extensive production support is typically available during creation. Content assets are well structured, content fragments are professionally produced with high quality, and production assets are often highly annotated (within the … Read more

PhD Thesis Summary

Sambit Bakshi

The advent of biometric system as a next-generation solution towards bringing social and national security to a technically-achievable scenario. This paradigm of authentication has easily taken over the classical token-based and knowledge-based systems. The last decade has seen researches claiming face and iris to be the most promising two traits. … Read more