Call for Papers: ACM Multimedia 2013 (now including a dedicated Music & Audio area)

[Cynthia Liem - EWI <C.C.S.Liem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia
http://www.acmmm13.org
http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-papers/

October 21–25, 2013 Barcelona, Spain.

Since the founding of ACM SIGMM in 1993, ACM Multimedia has been the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. At ACM Multimedia 2013, we will have an extensive program consisting of technical sessions covering all aspects of multimedia in forms of oral and poster presentations, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations and workshops, and also an interactive art program stimulating artists and computer scientists to meet and discover together the frontiers of artistic communication.

The dedicated Music & Audio submission area, which is new to this year’s edition of the conference, may be of special interest to the people on this list. Please find a full area description at http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-papers/#music .


TOPIC AREAS
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Art, Entertainment, and Culture
Authoring and Collaboration
Crowdsourcing
Media Transport and Delivery
Mobile & Multi-device
Multi-media Analysis
Multimedia HCI
Music & Audio
Search, Browsing, and Discovery
Security and Forensics
Social Media & Presence
Systems and Middleware  

UPCOMING DEADLINES

Papers
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Abstracts for Papers Due: March 1, 2013
Full/short Papers Due: March 8, 2013

Program
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Challenge-based Workshops Proposals: January 15, 2013
Regular Workshops Proposals: February 15, 2013
Brave New Idea Papers Proposals: March 15, 2013
Doctoral Symposium: April 5, 2013
Tutorial Proposals: April 8, 2013
Panel Proposals: April 8, 2013
Technical Demos: April 21, 2013
Open Source Software Competition: May 13, 2013
Multimedia Grand Challenge Solutions: July 1, 2013
Video Spotlights: August 20, 2013

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
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Full papers: Accepted full papers will be allocated 10 pages each and will be presented either as oral or poster at the conference. Submitted full papers (but not accepted) will NOT be forwarded or accepted as short papers, unlike former years.

Short papers: Accepted short papers will be allocated 4 pages each and will be presented as poster at the conference.

Accepted full and short papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library.

Anonymity: Paper submissions to ACM MM ‘13 must be anonymized. Papers which violate this rule will be rejected without review.

ORGANISATION
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General Chairs
Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Yahoo!, Spain
Nicu Sebe, Univ. of Trento, Italy
Nozha Boujema, INRIA, France

Program Co-Chairs
Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP & EPFL, CH
David A. Shamma, Yahoo!, US
Marcel Worring, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Roger Zimmermann, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, SG

Author’s Advocate
Pablo Cesar, CWI, The Netherlands


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Cynthia Liem MSc MMus
PhD Student

Multimedia Information Retrieval (DMIR) Lab
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD, Delft, The Netherlands
Room 11.320

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