ACM Multimedia 2010 http://acmmm10.unifi.it International Conference, 25-29 October 2010, Florence (I) Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:40:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Conference videos online! http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2011/02/conference-videos-online/ http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2011/02/conference-videos-online/#comments Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:03:57 +0000 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/?p=4656

A. Del Bimbo – Opening

VideoLectures.net has finally released the videos of the important events recorded during the conference!

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ACM Multimedia 2010 Best Paper and Demos Awards at Gala Dinner http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/acm-multimedia-2010-best-paper-and-demos-awards-at-gala-dinner/ http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/acm-multimedia-2010-best-paper-and-demos-awards-at-gala-dinner/#comments Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:23:10 +0000 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/?p=4605 Gala DinnerACM Multimedia 2010 Gala Dinner was held yesterday in Salone dei 500 at Palazzo Vecchio. It was a wonderful night in a beautiful place. During the dinner were also awarded the authors of the best paper, best student paper and best demos.
Best paper award: Richang Hong, Meng Wang, Mengdi Xu, Shuicheng Yan, Tat-Seng Chua, Dynamic Captioning: Video Accessibility Enhancement for Hearing Impairment

Best student paper award: Nikhil Rasiwasia, Jose Costa Pereira, Emanuele Coviello, Gabe Doyle, Gert Lanckriet, Roger Levy, Nuno Vasconcelos, A New Approach To Cross-Modal Multimedia Retrieval

Best demo award: Yang Cao, Hai Wang, Changhu Wang, Zhiwei Li, Liqing Zhang, Lei Zhang, MindFinder: Interactive Sketch-based Image Search on Millions of Images and Sabine Susstrunk, Clent Fredembach, Daniel Tamburrino, Automatic Skin Enhancement with Visible and Near-Infrared Image Fusion

Congratulations to the authors!

See the photos of the dinner on Flickr

Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio

Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio

Winners of the best paper award proclamation

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Open Source Software Competition Winners! http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/open-source-software-competition-winners/ http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/open-source-software-competition-winners/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:48:35 +0000 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/?p=4589 Open Source Software CompetitionWe are very proud to announce the winners of the ACM Open Source Software Competition 2010

Congratulations!

  1. Andrea Vedaldi, Brian Fulkerson, VLFeat – An open and portable library of computer vision algorithmsVLFeat
  2. Rob Hess, An Open-Source SIFT LibraryOpen-Source SIFT
  3. Florian Eyben, Martin Woellmer, Bjoern Schuller, openSMILE – The Munich Versatile and Fast Open-Source Audio Feature ExtractoropenSMILE
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SIGMM Phd Award to Effrosyni Kokiopoulou http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/sigmm-phd-award-to-effrosyni-kokiopoulou/ http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/sigmm-phd-award-to-effrosyni-kokiopoulou/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:30:46 +0000 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/?p=4593 Effrosyni KokiopoulouEffrosyni Kokiopoulou, received today the SIGMM Phd Award for his thesis Geometry-Aware Analysis of High-Dimensional Visual Information Sets. Congratulations!

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Keynote Speech of Mubarak Shah at ACM Multimedia 2010 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/keynote-speech-of-mubarak-shah-at-acm-multimedia-2010/ http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/keynote-speech-of-mubarak-shah-at-acm-multimedia-2010/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:49:09 +0000 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/?p=4581 Mubarak ShahDr. Mubarak Shah held today his keynote speech Visual Crowd Surveillance is Like Hydrodynamics. Dr. Mubarak showed novel methods for segmentation of flows in crowd videos at a macroscopic level, and to track individuals, detect and localize abnormal behaviors using social force model at a microscopic level.

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Multimedia Grand Challenge 2010 Winners! http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/multimedia-grand-challenge-2010-winners/ http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/multimedia-grand-challenge-2010-winners/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:45:11 +0000 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/?p=4530 multimedia grand challengeWith a very interesting and inspiring session ended today the edition of the ACM Multimedia Multimedia Grand Challenge 2010.

And the winners are (presenters in bold):

  1. Jana Machajdik, Allan Hanbury, Julian Stöttinger: Understanding Affect in Images.
  2. Wei Song, Dian Tjondronegoro, Ivan Himawan: ROI-based Content Adaptation for Mobile Device Usage of Video Conferencing.
  3. Julien Law-To, Gregory Grefenstette, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Guillaume Gravier, Lori Lamel, Julien Despres: Introducing topic segmentation and segmented-based browsing tools into a content based video retrieval system.

Congratulations to the winners!

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Technical Achievement Award to Ramesh Jain http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/technical-achievement-award-to-ramesh-jain/ http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/technical-achievement-award-to-ramesh-jain/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:00:20 +0000 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/?p=4557 Technical Achievement Award to Ramesh Jain Dr. Ramesh Jain, Discussion Rooms Chair of ACM Multimedia 2010, received today the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. Congratulations!

Ramesh Jain Technical Achievement Award Presentation: Life = Experiences(Events) + Vision

Ramesh Jain Technical Achievement Award Presentation: Life = Experiences(Events) + Vision

People attending the Technical Achievement Award Presentation

People attending the Technical Achievement Award Presentation

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First Keynote Speech of Duncan Watts at ACM Multimedia 2010 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/first-keynote-speech-of-duncan-watts-at-acm-multimedia-2010/ http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/first-keynote-speech-of-duncan-watts-at-acm-multimedia-2010/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:42:57 +0000 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/?p=4546 Duncan WattsDuncan Watts (author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age) opened the ACM Multimedia 2010 Main Conference Program with his keynote speech Using the Web to do Social Science. Duncan described, in particular, several interesting experiments concerning the measurement problems of collective behavior and focused on how the study of social networks can overcome this limitation.

Duncan Watts and Shih-Fu Chang

Duncan Watts and Shih-Fu Chang

Duncan Watts Keynote Speech  : Using the Web to do Social Science

Duncan Watts Keynote Speech : Using the Web to do Social Science

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ACM Multimedia 2010 volunteers are ready http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/acm-multimedia-2010-volunteers-are-ready/ http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/acm-multimedia-2010-volunteers-are-ready/#comments Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:27:43 +0000 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/?p=4520 ACM MM 2010 volunteers

ACM Multimedia 2010 volunteers have met on saturday in Palazzo dei Congressi in Florence to plan all the activities to do during the conference.

All these young and talented students also received the ACMMM2010 t-shirt, created by the interaction design lab staff at MICC, in order to be recognizable by all the conference attendees.

If you want to see more pictures of the meeting you can visit Marco Bertini’s Flickr photo stream.

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Volunteers meeting

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ACM MM 2010 tshirt

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ScientifiCareers, the job board of Multimedia, is online! http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/scientificareers-the-job-board-of-multimedia-is-online/ http://acmmm10.unifi.it/2010/10/scientificareers-the-job-board-of-multimedia-is-online/#comments Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:59:40 +0000 http://acmmm10.unifi.it/?p=4509 ScientifiCareers - job opportunities for ypung researchers in MultimediaScientifiCareers is a project dedicated to job opportunities for young researchers in the field of Multimedia.

The platform aims to promote the connection between companies and research labs, and to stimulate the exchange of expertise between different research teams.

ScientifiCareers is a free platform where professionals, industries and academic institutions can post their job requests in order to get in contact with young and talented researchers all over the world.

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