Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
ACM Multimedia Conference(2011)
摘要
We are delighted to welcome you, on behalf of the entire organizing committee, to the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACM Multimedia 2011 (MM'11), held between November 28th and December 1st, 2011, in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. ACM Multimedia (MM) is the flagship conference of the Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM), which profiles cutting-edge scientific developments and showcases innovative industrial multimedia technologies and applications. The conference aims to promote intellectual exchanges and interactions among scientists, engineers, students, multimedia users, and artists through various events, including keynote talks from leaders in the area, oral and poster sessions focused on research challenges and solutions, workshops in up-and-coming key areas of research, technical and industrial demonstrations of prototypes and commercial products, tutorials, research and industrial panels, doctoral symposium, mentoring events, scientific competitions (including an open source software and a multimedia grand challenge competition), and interactive art exhibits. Our key motivation while organizing the MM'11 conference was to find innovative ways to design an "inclusive" conference program: lowering the barriers between various MM sub-communities, boosting the cross-fertilization of ideas among the contributors and attendees across the various MM events, and maximizing the return-on-investment for the MM'11 participants. Examples of this new approach include the following: New plenary poster sessions, where all contributors (i.e., authors of long and short research papers, of workshop papers, and contributors to all other MM'11 events) are invited to share poster versions of their contributions with the rest of the MM'11 community. These plenary poster sessions allow conference participants to get a quick idea of interesting things happening in the multiple parallel sessions they cannot clone themselves to attend!Workshops were aligned with the other MM'11 events, instead of being held on a separate "workshops day" where many workshop participants never got to know the main conference and vice-versa. Our aim was to integrate workshops (which were chosen, in the first place, to represent emerging topics that complement the areas covered by the main technical program) organically with the other conference events and encourage broader participation by registrants in all conference and workshop programs. These innovations aimed to eliminate barriers in the program had to be supported by corresponding innovations in the MM'11 registration policies. Thus, we have instituted an "allin- one" registration fee structure, which covers attendance to all MM'11 events, including presentation and poster sessions, panels, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. By keeping the overall registration fee lower than recent years and by shaving one day off from the conference program, we also reduced the overall participation cost for most of the MM'11 attendees. A travel grants program, generously supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and SIGMM, also helped us lower the barrier for participation for many students and, as of this writing, a full 30% of the registrants to MM'11 are students. We also have a number of mentorship activities, including women mentoring event, organized and sponsored by SIGMM, a Doctoral Symposium program, which (in addition to having regular panels and presentations as before) this year opened up its doors to all student authors who want to present posters at the event, a panel on "Job Opportunities and Career Perspective for Fresh Graduates of the Multimedia Community", and a new "vis-a-vis meeting with researchers" social event where graduate students will meet and exchange ideas and receive guidance with internationally recognized researchers in their research area. Of course, apart from the above, MM'11 also continued with programs that proved to be extremely successful in the past. We have continued with the well-established and highly successful Open Source Software Competition, with special emphasis this year on instructional open source software designed for educational use in teaching multimedia-related courses at undergraduate or graduate level. Like the previous years, the Multimedia Grand Challenges competition attracted challenges from many leaders of the multimedia industry, including HP, Technicolor, Nokia, Yahoo, Huwei, and 3D Life, and proposals from all over the world. Similarly, this year's industrial exhibits program, which complements the MM technical demonstrations program, will focus on cutting-edge research prototypes, including system and product demonstrations from many industrial leaders, such as IBM, FX Palo Alto Labs, Microsoft Research, Exalead, and Yacast. The panels program emphasizes opportunities and challenges faced by researchers, industry, and open-source communities in multimedia and thus covers timely topics, such as "Smart Games", "Towards Synergy Between the Open Source and the Research Multimedia Communities", and "Innovating the Multimedia Experience". We are enthused to report that MM'11 includes three exciting keynote talks by three industry and academic leaders in multimedia research: Alex Pentland, Head of the MIT Human Dynamics Lab, Genevieve Bell, Director of the Interaction and Experience Research at the Intel Labs, and Arnaud Robert, Senior Vice President of Technology at The Walt Disney Studios. Last, but certainly not the least, we are proud that MM'11 hosts the prestigious SIGMM Technical Achievement Award presentation to Prof Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia University) and his award acceptance speech.
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