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NUS SCHOOL OF COMPUTING LAUNCHES THE 13TH ACM
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA, WITH A SPECIAL FEATURE ON
INTERACTIVE MEDIA ARTS EXHIBITION AT LASALLE-SIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS |
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More than 300 experts from the academia and
industry ¨C including researchers, implementers, practitioners, educators
and artists - will meet in Singapore from 8 to 11 November 2005 for the
ACM Multimedia conference to address the latest trends and developments
in multimedia systems and applications. |
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Organised by NUS School of Computing, this
premier conference in multimedia is held for the first time outside of
North America and Europe since its inception in 1993. |
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This event is sponsored by ACM SIGMM and
SIGGRAPH, supported by Microsoft Research, IBM Research and FXPAL, and
organised in collaboration with LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts,
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and Leonardo. |
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The conference will address the latest
trends and developments in multimedia systems and applications in
interactive TV, future of home media, next generation internet search,
advance user devices such as fluid keyboards and more. |
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The multimedia exhibition will feature
interactive art presented by international artists at LASALLE-SIA. |
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Mr Kazumasa Enami, Director-General of NHK
Science and Technical Research Laboratories, who has a wealth of
experience in the standardization of digital terrestrial TV broadcasting
services for mobile terminals and the development of a standard for a
broadcasting system based on home servers, will be delivering a keynote
address at opening of the conference on 8 November 2005 at 9am. |
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Mr Enami¡¯s talk will focus the future of
home media and the advanced technologies being developed by NHK Science
and Technical Research Laboratories. |
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The ACM Multimedia conference will cover a
wide range of topics on the foundations of multimedia, as well as
multimedia applications, content and systems. |
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In addition to high-quality technical paper
presentations, short poster paper presentations and doctoral symposium
for senior graduate students, eminent experts in the field will also be
addressing emerging trends - such as human-computer interaction and
advances in medical image retrieval ¨C and conduct tutorials and
workshops in various topical areas. |
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One key feature of this conference is the
emphasis on systems and applications. Technical demonstrations of
research prototypes and systems, open software competition, video
demonstration of concepts and applications, as well as interactive arts
which includes an exhibition of multimedia arts at the LASALLE-SIA
College of the Arts are key highlights of this year¡¯s conference. |
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A total of 49 papers, selected from 312
submissions will be presented in three tracks ¨C 15 in the Applications
track, 24 in the Content track, and 10 in the Systems track. |
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Interactive Arts Program featuring a
7-day Presence/Absence exhibition of 16 international artists at
LASALLE-SIA |
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The interactive arts program track, first
launched last year, has gained a foothold in this conference. As part of
the track, the LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in Singapore will be
holding a 7-day exhibition at its campus. |
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The exhibition will be opened to main
conference participants, as well as the art fraternity and the public.
Details on the exhibition are presented in
Annex 1. |
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Other conference highlights (Held at
Hilton Hotel): |
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Critical Video Quality
for Distributed Automated Video Surveillance Presented by: Pavel
Korchunov and Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore Date
& Time: 8 November@1330hrs, Hall 2 This presentation looks at how
the quality and accuracy live video stream transmission can be
improved. Applications include monitoring of traffic conditions
and security surveillance. |
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¡°flUID streams¡±
Presented by: Steve Mann, University of Toronto Date & Time: 8
November@1330hrs, Vista 1 Visitors at the conference will have a
chance to explore new generation keyboard technology ¨C traditional
keyboards are replaced with keyboards with nozzle sprays as keys
to give rich tactile feedback. This technology is launched here
for the first time in Asia. |
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A Unified Framework
for Resolving Ambiguity in Copy Detection Presented by: Sujoy Roy
and Ee-Chien Chang, National University of Singapore Date & Time:
9 November@1030hrs, Hall 1 This presentation explains how copy
detection software can be used to identify illegal copying of
partial digital images. |
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Digital Violin Tutor:
An Integrated System for Beginning Violin Learners Presented by:
Jun Yin, Ye Wang and David Hsu, National University of Singapore
Date & Time: 10 November@1100hrs, Hall 2 This presentation
features an innovative digital violin tutor that teaches a user
how to play the violin. |
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The programme and details about the
conference can be found at: http://
www.acmmm05.org/ |
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Annex 1 (Exhibition details) |
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Sources:
www.lasallesia.edu.sg,
www.nus.edu.sg 4 Nov 2005 |
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