There were several workshops on the last day of the program at ACM Multimedia. I attended parts of three. I gave the keynote talk at the workshop on Video Surveillance. My talk was on Observation Systems. This talk is available…
Workshops at ACM Multimedia
Video sharing
More sites for video sharing are starting to appear on web. Big players — Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft — are getting in this space and so are start-ups. Cable companies have been talking about this space from traditional media perspective.…
Third day at ACM Multimedia
Our community (academic multimedia community) is really going thru its ‘teenage’ years and is looking for its identity. Today’s panel on Foundational issues was another example of that. In this panel, most questions were based on the feeling that we…
Second Day at ACM Multimedia
Every field goes through the maturation process. Multimedia academic community is going through a similar stage. Multimedia community wants to be recognized as a ‘mature’ area of computer science but wants to maintain the creativity, openness, interdisciplinary nature that is…
First Day at ACM Multimedia
ACM Multimedia 2005 started at the Hilton in Singapore. About 350 researchers in multimedia are attending this premier research conference in multimedia. This year I find more papers on Multimedia compared to only on one media. This is a good…