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ACM Multimedia 2010 - worldwide premier multimedia conference - 25-29 October 2010 - Florence (I) Conference Program Attendees General History People Program at a glance Technical Program Competitions Interactive Art Exhibit Tutorials Workshops Registration Travel Accommodation Venues Instructions for Presenting Authors You are here: Home Welcome to the ACM Multimedia 2010 website Sponsors Social ACM Multimedia 2010 is the worldwide premier multimedia conference and a key event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products. The Conference offers to scientists and practitioners in the area of Multimedia plenary scientific and technical sessions, tutorials, panels and discussion meetings on relevant and challenging questions for the next years horizon of multimedia. The Interactive Art program ACM Multimedia 2010 will provide the opportunity of interaction between artists and computer scientists and investigation on the application of multimedia technologies to art and cultural heritage. Please look inside the ACM MULTIMEDIA Website for more information. Conference videos online! By WEBCHAIRS | Published: FEBRUARY 4, 2011 A. Del Bimbo – Opening Shih-Fu Chang – Opening A. Smeulders – Opening D. Watts – Keynotes M. Shah – Keynotes R. Jain – Tech. achiev. award E. Kokiopoulou – SIGMM award S. Bhattacharya – Best papers ACM Multimedia 2010 Twitter http://www.acmmm10.org/[20/11/2011 7:16:00 PM] ACM Multimedia 2010 - worldwide premier multimedia conference - 25-29 October 2010 - Florence (I) S. Tan – Best papers R. Hong – Best papers S. Milani – Best papers Exhibit VideoLectures.net has finally released the videos of the important events recorded during the conference! ACM Multimedia 2010 Best Paper and Demos Awards at Gala Dinner By WEBCHAIRS | Published: OCTOBER 29, 2010 ACM 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 Read More » Open Source Software Competition Winners! By WEBCHAIRS | Published: OCTOBER 28, 2010 We 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 algorithms – VLFeat 2. Rob Hess, An Open-Source SIFT Library – Open-Source SIFT 3. Florian Eyben, Martin Woellmer, Bjoern Schuller, openSMILE – The Munich Versatile and Fast Open-Source Audio Feature Extractor – openSMILE SIGMM Phd Award to Effrosyni Kokiopoulou By WEBCHAIRS | Published: OCTOBER 28, 2010 Effrosyni Kokiopoulou, received today the SIGMM Phd Award for his thesis Geometry-Aware Analysis of High- Dimensional Visual Information Sets. Congratulations! http://www.acmmm10.org/[20/11/2011 7:16:00 PM] ACM Multimedia 2010 - worldwide premier multimedia conference - 25-29 October 2010 - Florence (I) Keynote Speech of Mubarak Shah at ACM Multimedia 2010 By WEBCHAIRS | Published: OCTOBER 28, 2010 Dr. 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. Multimedia Grand Challenge 2010 Winners! By WEBCHAIRS | Published: OCTOBER 27, 2010 With 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! Technical Achievement Award to Ramesh Jain By WEBCHAIRS | Published: OCTOBER 27, 2010 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! Read More » First Keynote Speech of Duncan Watts at ACM Multimedia 2010 By WEBCHAIRS | Published: OCTOBER 26, 2010 Duncan 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. Read More » ACM Multimedia 2010 volunteers are ready By WEBCHAIRS | Published: OCTOBER 24, 2010 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. Read More » ScientifiCareers, the job board of Multimedia, is online! By WEBCHAIRS | Published: OCTOBER 23, 2010 ScientifiCareers is a project dedicated to job opportunities for young researchers in the field of Multimedia. http://www.acmmm10.org/[20/11/2011 7:16:00 PM] ACM Multimedia 2010 - worldwide premier multimedia conference - 25-29 October 2010 - Florence (I) 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. « Older posts ACM Multimedia 2010 International Conference, 25-29th October 2010, Firenze, Italy. Credits: MICC, Media Integration and Communication Centre, National Center of Excellence, Università di Firenze, Italy. http://www.acmmm10.org/[20/11/2011 7:16:00 PM] Conference videos online! | ACM Multimedia 2010 Conference Program Attendees General History People Program at a glance Technical Program Competitions Interactive Art Exhibit Tutorials Workshops Registration Travel Accommodation Venues Instructions for Presenting Authors You are here: Home » News » Conference videos online! Conference videos online! Sponsors Social By WEBCHAIRS | Published: FEBRUARY 4, 2011 A. Del Bimbo – Opening Shih-Fu Chang – Opening A. Smeulders – Opening D. Watts – Keynotes M. Shah – Keynotes R. Jain – Tech. achiev. award E. Kokiopoulou – SIGMM award S. Bhattacharya – Best papers S. Tan – Best papers R. Hong – Best papers S. Milani – Best papers Exhibit VideoLectures.net has finally released the videos of the important events recorded during the conference! ACM Multimedia 2010 Twitter http://www.acmmm10.org/2011/02/conference-videos-online/[20/11/2011 7:16:13 PM] Conference videos online! | ACM Multimedia 2010 Share: « ACM Multimedia 2010 Best Paper and Demos Awards at Gala Dinner Post a Comment Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked * Name * Email * Website Comment You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> ACM Multimedia 2010 International Conference, 25-29th October 2010, Firenze, Italy. 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