ACM Multimedia 2006 Conference

ACM MM 2006 Awards

Best full technical paper: Tiling Slideshow

Authors: Jun-Cheng Chen, Wei-Ta Chu, Jin-Hau Kuo, Chung-Yi Wenb, Ja-Ling Wu

National Taiwan University

Best short technical paper: Fourth Frame Forums: Interactive Comics for Collaborative Learning

Authors: Andrew Gordon

University of Southern California

Best Art Contribution: Archeology of Multimedia

Authors: Fabrizio Nunnari, Vincenzo Lombardo, Andrea Valle, Francesco Giordana, Andrea Arghinenti
University of Torino

Best Demonstration: A Real-Time Multi-modal Biofeedback System for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation

Authors: Yin-peng Chen, Wei-wei Xu, Richard Isaac Wallis, Hari Sundaram, Thanassis Rikakis, Todd Ingalls, Loren Olson, Ji-ping He

Arizona State University

Open Source Competition Winner: CLAM: C++ Library for Audio and Music

Authors: Xavier Amatriain, Pan Arumi, David Garcia

University of California, Santa Barbara and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

Best Video Program: Globe4D, Time-traveling with an Interactive Four Dimensional Globe

Authors: Rick Companje, Nico van Dijk, Hanco Hogenbirk, Danica Mast

Globe4D.com

ACM Multimedia 2006 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices.

The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in:

     (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval;
     (b) Multimedia networking and systems support;
     (c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications; and
     (d) Foundational sciences of multimedia.

State-of-the-Art Tutorials by leading experts will precede the technical program. The full- and half-day offerings will span a wide variety of topics.

Awards will be given to to the best paper and the best student paper. In order to encourage sharing of implementations, this year will also initiate awards for best demo, best art program paper, and the best-contributed open-source software.

Short papers will be presented in poster format and are an opportunity for researchers to present new work and ideas in an interactive setting.

Brave New Topics track is a special sessions track containing papers, which establish foundational sciences and extend the boundaries of multimedia research.

Technical Demos will include leading edge work in every area of multimedia technology and its application. An award will be given to the best demo.

Interactive Art Program will include long and short papers describing interactive multimedia art works, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology. It will also include an art exhibition.

Video Demonstrations allow researchers and artists to demonstrate their tool, system or application without having to bring the equipment for a "live" demo.

Workshops on topics of great current interest to members of the multimedia research community will precede the technical program.

The Doctoral Symposium is a venue for doctoral students to present their research and receive feedback from members of the multimedia research field.

The Open-source Software Competition is a recent addition to the ACM Multimedia program and 2006 will be our third year in running the competition.