ACM Multimedia

Infobox Academic Conference
history = 1993-
discipline = multimedia
abbreviation = ACM-MM
publisher = ACM SIGMM
country = International
frequency = annual

ACM Multimedia (ACM-MM) is the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)'s annual conference on multimedia, sponsored by the SIGMM special interest group.

In 2003, the conference was given an "Estimated impact factor" of 1.22 by CiteSeer, placing it in the top 15% of computer science publication venues. [cite web | url = http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/impact.html | title = Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Science | author = CiteSeer; Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker, Lee Giles | year = 2003 ] In 2006 the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia awarded it an A+ ranking for conferences attended by Australian academics. [cite web | url = http://www.core.edu.au/rankings/Tierranksjune.pdf | title = 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences | year = 2007 | work = Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia | accessdate = 2007-10-20 ]

Conference sites and locations

* [http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/ 2008] , October 27 – November 1, Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada
* [http://mmc36.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/acmmm2007/ 2007] , September 24-29, University of Augsburg, Germany.
* [http://mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/ 2006] October 23-27, Fess Parker's DoubleTree Resort Hotel, Santa Barbara, USA. ISBN 1-59593-447-2
* [http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg 2005] November 6-11, Hilton, Singapore. ISBN 1-59593-044-2
* [http://www.mm2004.org 2004] October 10-16, New York. ISBN 1-58113-893-8
*2003 November 2-8, Berkeley, California. ISBN 1-58113-722-2
* [http://mm02.eurecom.fr 2002] , December 1-6, Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera. ISBN 1-58113-620-X
*2001, September 30 - October 5, Ottawa, Canada. ISBN 1-58113-394-4
*2000, October 30 - November 3, Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, CA. Proceedings: ISBN 1-58113-198-4; Workshops: ISBN 1-58113-311-1
*1999, October 30 - November 5, Orlando, Florida. Proc. Part 1: ISBN 1-58113-151-8; Proc. Part 2: ISBN 1-58113-239-5
* [http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM98/electronic_proceedings 1998] , September 12-16, University of Bristol, United Kingdom [cite journal | title = The World Comes to Bristol: A Report from ACM Multimedia '98 | author = Simon Price | journal = Interact | issue = 17 | publisher = Learning Technology Support Service, University of Bristol | issn = 1368-4590 ] ISBN 0-201-30990-4
*1997, November 9-13, Seattle, WA. ISBN 0-89791-991-2
* [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/acm96 1996] , November 18 - 22, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA. ISBN 0-89791-871-1
*1995, November 5-9, San Francisco, CA. ISBN 0-89791-751-0
*1994, October 15-20, San Francisco, CA. ISBN 0-89791-686-7
*1993, August 1-6, Anaheim, CA. [cite book | title = Multimedia Systems | author = Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt | year = 2004 | publisher = Springer | isbn = 3540408673 | pages = p.7 | quote = In addition to a large number of system and networking national and international conferences and workshops, that have special tracks of sessions on multimedia system research, there are several international conference focussed on multimedia systems only, in particular: ACM Multimedia Conference (the first conference took place in Anaheim, California, August 1993), IEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (the first conference was held in May 1994), SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), ACM Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), IEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), and European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS). ] ISBN 0-89791-596-8

ACM Multimedia workshops

*The [http://research.microsoft.com/research/barc/CARPE2004/Default.htm first international workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experience] (CARPE 2004) covered "capture, retrieval, organization, search, privacy, and legal issues" surrounding "continuous archival and retrieval of all media relating to personal experiences"; speakers included Steve Mann and Gordon Bell.

Open Source Competition

Starting in 2004, ACM Multimedia hosts a Open Source competition, providing an award for the best Open Source computer program(s). [cite journal | title = Share It, Reveal It, Reuse It, and Push Multimedia into a New Decade | author = Susanne Boll , University of Oldenburg | journal = IEEE Multimedia | date = October-December 2007 | volume = 14 | issue = 4 | pages = pp. 14–19 | doi = 10.1109/MMUL.2007.83 ]

* 2006: [http://clam.iua.upf.edu/ C++ Library for Audio and Music] (CLAM), an open source framework for audio and music research and application development. [cite web | url = http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/opensource.html | title = Open Source Competition | work = ACM Multimedia Conference | year = 2006 ] [cite web | url = http://www.create.ucsb.edu/create/createWeb/news/newsShow.php?id=63&f=1 | title = CLAM wins the 2006 ACM open source multimedia competition | work = Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology ] [cite web | url = http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/node/79 | title = CLAM wins ACM MM Open Source Competition | date = 2006-07-10 ]
* 2005: [http://openvidia.sourceforge.net/ OpenVIDIA] , a GPU accelerated Computer Vision Library. [cite web | url = http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/pdfdocs/final-program.pdf | title = Program | work = ACM Multimedia Conference | year = 2005 ]
* 2004: Two winners [cite web | url = http://www.acm.org/sigs/sgb/fy05annrpt/mm05.pdf | title = SIGMM FY’05 ANNUAL REPORT | month = June | year = 2005 | author = Ramesh Jain, SIGMM Chair ]
** [http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ ChucK] , an audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, performance, and analysis.
** "' [http://flavor.sourceforge.net/ Flavor] ", A Formal Language for Audio-Visual Object Representation

Other conferences on the same topic

* ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN)
*IEEE ICME (International Conference Multimedia Expo)
*IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE-ISM)

Other conferences on related topics

*ACM SIGGRAPH
*NIME
*International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
*WIAMIS

References

External links

* [http://www.sigmm.org/ SIGMM]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/mm/index.html ACM Multimedia] bibliographic information on Digital Bibliography & Library Project