ACM Multimedia

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ACM Multimedia
Abbreviation ACM-MM
Discipline multimedia
Publication details
Publisher ACM SIGMM (US)
History 1993-
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.[1] In 2006 the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia awarded it an A+ ranking for conferences attended by Australian academics.[2]

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[edit] Conference sites and locations

[edit] ACM Multimedia workshops

[edit] Open Source Competition

Starting in 2004, ACM Multimedia hosts a Open Source competition, providing an award for the best Open Source computer program(s).[5]

  • 2006: C++ Library for Audio and Music (CLAM), an open source framework for audio and music research and application development.[6][7][8]
  • 2005: OpenVIDIA, a GPU accelerated Computer Vision Library.[9]
  • 2004: Two winners[10]
    • ChucK, an audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, performance, and analysis.
    • 'Flavor, A Formal Language for Audio-Visual Object Representation

[edit] Other conferences on the same topic

  • IEEE ICME (International Conference Multimedia Expo)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE-ISM)

[edit] Other conferences on related topics

[edit] References

  1. ^ CiteSeer; Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker, Lee Giles (2003). Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Science.
  2. ^ 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences. Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
  3. ^ Simon Price. "The World Comes to Bristol: A Report from ACM Multimedia '98". Interact (17). Learning Technology Support Service, University of Bristol. ISSN 1368-4590. 
  4. ^ Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt (2004). Multimedia Systems. Springer, p.7. ISBN 3540408673. “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).” 
  5. ^ Susanne Boll , University of Oldenburg (October-December 2007). "Share It, Reveal It, Reuse It, and Push Multimedia into a New Decade". IEEE Multimedia 14 (4): pp. 14-19. 
  6. ^ Open Source Competition. ACM Multimedia Conference (2006).
  7. ^ CLAM wins the 2006 ACM open source multimedia competition. Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology.
  8. ^ CLAM wins ACM MM Open Source Competition (July 10, 2006).
  9. ^ Program. ACM Multimedia Conference (2005).
  10. ^ Ramesh Jain, SIGMM Chair (June 2005). SIGMM FY’05 ANNUAL REPORT.

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