Tomorrow morning — on Oct 31 — I am leaving for China. I am giving a keynote talk at the Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia in Hangzhou. I am told that they receive 1500 research papers and accept less than 15% of those for presentation. Amazinv, because most of these are from China. There has [...]
On the last day of the ACM Multimedia conference, there were many workshops. In fact, there were many that I wanted to at least sample to see what is going on in that area — like in video surveillance, multimedia information retrieval, and human centered multimedia. I ended up attending part of the Human Centered [...]
The third day at the conference started with the key note talk by Bradley Horowitz. Bradley argued for social search and Web 2.0 culture. He did make people think about current search approaches in academic community and how those could be applied should be reconsidered. There were some good technical sessions after that. I attended [...]
The second day at ACM Multimedia is usually the most active day with lots of activities and the banquet. It was a very enjoyable and interesting day. There were many interesting research papers. I will post many of those things at Seraja under events – with ACMMM06 as a tag. Do visit www.seraja.com and [...]
I am in Santa Barbara to attend ACM Multimedia 2006 — a yearly conference at which leading academic research in Multimedia is presented and discussed. Close to 500 researchers from all over the world are here. This is a conference that is like family get-to-gether for me. Chance to meet many friends — and since [...]