ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video

*** TVX 2015 ***

ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video

3rd – 5th June 2015

http://tvx2015.com/

Hosted by iMinds Digital Society Department at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Brussels, Belgium

Jointly organised with the International Symposium on Media Innovations (ISMI) and the Private Television Conference

IMPORTANT DATES:

•  November 15, 2014: Course and Workshop proposals
• January 12, 2015: Full and Short Paper submissions
• March 2, 2015: WiP, TVX in Industry, Demo, Doctoral Consortium

TVX is the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video. TVX is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into online video and TV interaction and user experience. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. In addition to standard research paper presentations the conference includes a wide range of formats for presentation and discussion of research, including Industry Papers, Demos, Works-in-Progress, and also provides the opportunity to participate in the Doctoral Consortium and to run and attend courses and workshops on specialist topics in TV and online video interaction and user experience.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Content Production: traditional & novel content production for the new media landscape, including cross-platform services and interactive storytelling, and personalisation.
• Systems & Infrastructures: system designs and architectures and their evaluation, including delivery, transmission, and synchronization of media.
• Interaction Technologies & techniques: including gestural and multi-sensory, multi-display systems, and interaction for device ecosystems.
• Experience Design & Evaluation: TV and online video design and evaluation research, including social and shared experiences.
• Media Studies: including consumption practices and theoretical and practical ethical, regulatory, and policy issues.
• Empirical Methods: novel methods for evaluating TV and online video experience, and audience measurement.
• Data Science for TV & Online Video: advances in techniques for collaborative filtering, interactive/synchronous environments, collective intelligence and crowd-sourcing, and location-based and context-aware applications and services.
• Business Models & Marketing: research and practice around novel business models and marketing strategies for the new media landscape of television and online video. Studies around novel ways of advertisement models and strategies.
• Innovation & Visions of Future TV & Online Video: research on innovative design strategies, new concepts, and prototype experiences for television and online video, including case studies and media artworks and performances.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Contributions must describe unpublished original work, emphasizing completed or advanced research, and a parallel submission to other venues should be clearly indicated to the program committee. Research paper submissions are double-blind and will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.

For detailed submission guidelines, including the use of the ACM SIGCHI PCS submission system see: http://tvx2015.com/participation

MENTORING PROGRAM

Along the inclusion and accessibility strategy at TVX2015, we also provide a mentoring opportunity. During the TVX submission process, we can provide the opportunity to bring the experience of established researchers to new researchers. In the mentorship program we get you in contact with a specific member of the community who will provide feedback and support for your submission.

Please find more information on how to ask for mentoring, becoming a mentor, and our existing mentors: http://tvx2015.com/inclusion-accessibility/mentoring-program/

CONTACT

For up-to-date information and further details visit: http://tvx2015.com/

For questions, please contact us on: info@tvx2015.com

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIRS

David Geerts, iMinds / KU Leuven, Belgium

Lieven De Marez, iMinds / UGent, Belgium

Caroline Pauwels, iMinds / VUB, Belgium

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Frank Bentley, Yahoo Labs, USA

Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

WORK IN PROGRESS CHAIRS

Hokyoung Blake Ryu, Hanyang University, South Korea

Jeroen Vanattenhoven, iMinds / KU Leuven, Belgium

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Rene Kaiser, Joanneum Research, Austria

Noor Ali-Hasan, Google, USA

COURSE CHAIRS

Pedro Almeida, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Santosh Basapur, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS

Marian Ursu, University of York, UK

Teresa Chambel, University of Lisbon, Portugal

TVX IN INDUSTRY CHAIRS

Katia Aerts, Mike Matton, VRT, Belgium

DEMO CHAIRS

Tom Bartindale, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK

Rinze Leenheer, iMinds / KU Leuven, Belgium

INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY CHAIR

Reuben Kirkham, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK

Tom Evens, iMinds / UGent, Belgium

LOCAL PRODUCTION CHAIR

Jonathan Huyghe, iMinds / KU Leuven, Belgium

Call for Poster/Demo: ACM VideoNext 2014

Call for Posters/Demo: ACM VideoNext 2014

http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/Workshops/VideoNext/cfd.html

02 December, Sydney Australia

In Conjunction with ACM CoNEXT 2014

http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/index.html

VideoNext 2014 is inviting submissions for a special poster and demo session that will foster lively, informal, and in-depth discussions on emerging topics in video streaming and multimedia communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Media streaming, distribution, and storage
• Cloud-assisted video streaming including encoding, transcoding, and adaptation
• Energy efficient multimedia streaming
• Peer-to-peer and cooperative video streaming
• Multimedia communications and system security
• Networked games and real-time immersive systems
• Web 2.0 systems and social networks
• Streaming next generation video like multi-view, panorama and 3D
• Wireless networks and embedded systems for multimedia applications
• Compressive sensing for efficient video capture, processing, and streaming

What and How to Submit

VideoNext posters and demos will be selected on the basis of two-page PDF abstracts, with fonts no smaller than 10 point, using the same format as for regular papers.  Abstracts must be submitted using the submission system linked from the call for poster/demo site:

http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/Workshops/VideoNext/cfd.html

Posters will be reviewed and selected on the following basis:

• Submissions must describe new, interesting work, not previously presented. Posters may be accompanied by demos (subject to limited space). Preference will be given toward posters accompanied by demos.

• Student submissions meeting the above criteria will be given preference; however, non-students may also submit abstracts.

Please provide the following information in your PDF file in addition to presenting your research:

• Poster title
• Author names, affiliations and email addresses
• Mark which authors, if any, are students
• Indicate if you plan to set up a demo with your poster. If so, the submission must include the requirements for the demo setup and presentation. Note that the authors will be responsible to bring and set up any equipment they will need.

All submissions will be reviewed by the TPC of VideoNext 2014.

Accepted posters will be published online on the workshop Web site. At least one author should register and present the poster throughout the entire session. Authors of the best posters will be given award certificates and three minutes each to present their work before the poster session.

Important Dates

• Submission: 17 October 2014
• Notifications: 24 October 2014

CfP: ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2012

June 5-8, 2012, Hong Kong

http://www.icmr2012.org/

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2012

Multimedia computing, indexing and retrieval continue to be one of the most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. The Second ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) offers opportunities for the exchange of ideas between researchers, practitioners and potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. This conference, puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR series, was set up to illuminate the state of the art in multimedia (including image, video and audio) retrieval.

ICMR 2012 is seeking original high quality submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of multimedia retrieval. Contributions addressing the challenges of large-scale search and user behavior analysis are especially welcome.

Topics of Interest (not limited to)

• Content/semantic/affective based indexing and retrieval
• Large-scale and web-scale multimedia processing
• Integration of content, meta data and social network
• Scalable and distributed search
• User behavior and HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
• Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics
• Multimedia fusion
• High performance indexing algorithms
• Machine learning for multimedia retrieval
• Ontology for annotation and search
• 3D video and model processing
• Large-scale summarization and visualization
• Performance evaluation
• Very large scale multimedia corpus
• Navigation and browsing on the Web
• Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs
• Database architectures for storage and retrieval
• Novel multimedia data management systems and applications
• Applications in forensic, biomedical image and video collections

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: January 15, 2012
• Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2012
• Camera-Ready Papers Due: April 5, 2012
• Conference Date: June 5-8, 2012

Questions?

• More information at: http://www.icmr2012.org/
• Printed version of CfP: http://www.icmr2012.org/index.files/icmr2012-cfp.pdf

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM - TOMCCAP)

Call for Proposals - Special Issue 

Deadline for Proposal Submission: May, 31th 2011 

Notification: June, 10th 2011 

http://tomccap.acm.org/

ACM - TOMCCAP is one of the world's leading journals on multimedia. As in previous years we are planning to publish a special issue in 2012. Proposals are accepted until May, 31th 2011. Each special issue is the responsibility of guest editors. If you wish to guest edit a special issue you should prepare a proposal as outlined below, then send this via e-mail to EiC Ralf Steinmetz (steinmetz.eic@kom.tu-darmstadt.de)

Proposals should:

• Cover a current or emerging topic in the area of multimedia computing, communications and applications; 
• Set out the importance of the special issue's topic in that area; 
• Give a strategy for the recruitment of high quality papers; 
• Indicate a draft time-scale in which the special issue could be produced (paper writing, reviewing, and submission of final copies to TOMCCAP), assuming the proposal is accepted. 

Unlike the years before, the special issue will be published as online-only issue in the ACM Digital Library. This gives the guest editors higher flexibility in the review process and the number of papers to be accepted, while yet ensuring a timely publication. A notification of acceptance for the proposals will be given until June, 10th 2011. Once a proposal is accepted we will contact you to discuss the further process.

For questions please contact:

• Ralf Steinmetz - Editor in Chief (steinmetz.eic@kom.tu-darmstadt.de) 
• Lasse Lehmann - Information Director (lasse.lehmann@kom.tu-darmstadt.de)