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SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing,
Communications and Applications

 

Award Description

This award will be presented at most once per year to a researcher whose PhD
thesis has the potential of very high impact in multimedia computing,
communication and applications, or gives direct evidence of such impact. A
selection committee will evaluate contributions towards advances in
multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia
network services, multimedia applications and interfaces. The award will
recognize members of the SIGMM community and their research contributions in
their PhD theses as well as the potential of impact of their PhD theses in
multimedia area. The selection committee will focus on candidates'
contributions as judged by innovative ideas and potential impact resulting
from their PhD work.

 

The award includes a US$500 honorarium, an award certificate of recognition,
and an invitation for the recipient to receive the award at a current year's
SIGMM-sponsored conference, the ACM International Conference on Multimedia
(ACM Multimedia). A public citation for the award will be placed on the
SIGMM website, in the SIGMM Records e-newsletter as well as in the ACM
e-newsletter.

 

Funding

The award honorarium, the award plaque of recognition and travel expenses to
the ACM International Conference on Multimedia will be fully sponsored by
the SIGMM budget.

 

Nomination Applications

Nominations will be solicited by the 31st May 2017 with an award decision to
be made by August 30. This timing will allow a recipient to prepare for an
award presentation at ACM Multimedia in that Fall (October).

 

The initial nomination for a PhD thesis must relate to a dissertation
deposited at the nominee's Academic Institution between January and December
of the year previous to the nomination. As discussed below, some
dissertations may be held for up to three years by the selection committee
for reconsideration. If the original thesis is not in English, a full
English translation must be provided with the submission. Nominations for
the award must include:

 

1.       PhD thesis (submission at http://sigmm.org/Awards/thesisaward)

2.       A statement summarizing the candidate's PhD thesis contributions
and potential impact, and justification of the nomination (two pages
maximum);

3.       Curriculum Vitae of the nominee

4.       Three endorsement letters supporting the nomination including the
significant PhD thesis contributions of the candidate. Each endorsement
should be no longer than 500 words with clear specification of nominee PhD
thesis contributions and potential impact on the multimedia field.

5.       A concise statement (one sentence) of the PhD thesis contribution
for which the award is being given. This statement will appear on the award
certificate and on the website.

 

The nomination rules are:

1.       The nominee can be any member of the scientific community.

2.       The nominator must be a SIGMM member.

3.       No self-nomination is allowed.

 

If a particular thesis is considered to be of exceptional merit but not
selected for the award in a given year, the selection committee (at its sole
discretion) may elect to retain the submission for consideration in at most
two following years. The candidate will be invited to resubmit his/her work
in these years.

 

A thesis is considered to be outstanding if:

 

1.       Theoretical contributions are significant and application to
multimedia is demonstrated.

2.       Applications to multimedia is outstanding, techniques are backed by
solid theory with clear demonstration that algorithms can be applied in new
domains -  e.g., algorithms must be demonstrably scalable in application in
terms of robustness, convergence and complexity.

 

The submission process of nominations will be preceded by the call for
nominations. The call of nominations will be widely publicized by the SIGMM
awards committee and by the SIGMM Executive Board at the different SIGMM
venues, such as during the SIGMM premier ACM Multimedia conference (at the
SIGMM Business Meeting) on the SIGMM web site, via SIGMM mailing list, and
via SIGMM e-newsletter between September and December of the previous year.

 

Submission Process

 

.       Register an account at
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SIGMMA2017/  and upload one copy of the
nominated PhD thesis. The nominee will receive a Paper ID after the
submission.

.       The nominator must then collate other materials detailed in the
previous section and upload them as supplementary materials, except the
endorsement letters, which must be emailed separately as detailed below.

.       Contact your referees and ask them to send all endorsement letters
to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  with the title: "PhD
Thesis Award Endorsement Letter for [YourName]". The web administrator will
acknowledge the receipt and the submission CMT website will reflect the
status of uploaded documents and endorsement letters.

 

It is the responsibility of the nominator to follow the process and make
sure documentation is complete. Thesis with incomplete documentation will be
considered invalid.

 

Selection Committee

 

The 2017 award selection committee consists of:

 

Dr. Yong Rui (yongrui@lenovo,com) chair

 

Previous Recipients

2016: Christoph Kofler (User Intent in Online Video Search)

2015: Ting Yao (Multimedia Search by Self, External, and Crowdsourcing
Knowledge)

2014: Zhigang Ma (From Concepts to Events: A Progressive Process for
Multimedia Content Analysis)

2013: Xirong Li (Content-based visual search learned from social media)

2012: Wanmin Wu (Human-Centric Control of Video Functions and Underlying
Resources in 3D Tele-immersive Systems)

 



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