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DIS group at ACM Multimedia Conference 2023

Publication date: 2023-10-31
Article based on CWI news item [here and here] and Transmixr news.

Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in contributions to this year’s ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM 2023 ). Since its inception in 1993, ACM Multimedia is the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. It is the flagship of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (ACM SIGMM) which provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in all aspects of multimedia computing, communication, storage and applications. The group is keeping helping the 

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SIGMM community with Pablo Cesar in the executive committee  and acting as Editor in Chief of the SIGMM Records , the SIGMM quarterly magazine. Silvia Rossi is also leading the SIGMM Records as Information Director.

This year, ACM MM was held in Ottawa, Canada from October 29th to November 2nd, 2023. During the conference Pablo Cesar participated at the SIGMM retreat, an important occasion for the leadership of SIGMM, ACM Multimedia and other SIGMM conferences to discuss the most important challenges that the multimedia community is now facing.

The workshop “Interactive eXtended Reality ”, co-organised by Irene Viola, was held on October 29, with presentations from Ashutosh Singla (“Subjective Quality Evaluation of Point Clouds using Remote Testing”) and Silvia Rossi (“Correlation between Entropy and Prediction Error in VR Head Motion Trajectories”). The first workshop paper presented by Ashutosh Singla, investigates the applicability of remote testing by using Absolute Category Rating (ACR) test method for assessing the subjective quality of point clouds in different test environments (e.g., lab-based tests).

The one presented by Silvia Rossi explores the relationship between the way in which users interact with immersive content and the predictability of their trajectories. 

On October 30, a panel titled “On the Impact of Interactive eXtended Reality: Challenges and Opportunities for Multimedia Research” was hold and moderated by Irene Viola. 

Silvia Rossi, instead, was an invited panellist in the panel “Multimodal Large Foundation Models” organised by Marcel Worring (UvA, The Netherlands) and Mohan Kankanhalli (NUS, Singapore).

Finally, Silvia was awarded the 2023 SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications for her PhD thesis entitled “Understanding user interactivity for the next-generation immersive communication: design, optimisation, and behavioural analysis”.​

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Below, we highlight these main contributions of the DIS group to the conference (2 workshop papers, 1 workshop and 1 panel).

List of ACM Multimedia 2023 works by DIS

  • Workshop papers:

    • Silvia Rossi, Laura Toni, and Pablo Cesar. 2023. Correlation between Entropy and Prediction Error in VR Head Motion Trajectories. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Interactive eXtended Reality (IXR ’23), October 29, 2023, Ottawa, ON, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3607546.3616805; 

    • Ashutosh Singla, Shuang Wang, Steve Göring, Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao, Irene Viola, Pablo Cesar, Alexander Raake. 2023. Subjective Quality Evaluation of Point Clouds using Remote Testing. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Interactive eXtended Reality (IXR ’23), October 29, 2023, Ottawa, ON, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3607546.3616803; 

  • Workshop: Irene Viola, Hadi Amirpour, Stephanie Arevalo Arboleda, and Maria Torres Vega. Second International Workshop on Interactive Extended Reality. Workshop webpage ;

  • Panel: “On the Impact of Interactive eXtended Reality” organised and moderated by Irene Viola and Maria Torres Vega  (KU Leuven, Belgium);

  • Invited Panellist: Silvia join the panel “Multimodal Large Foundation Models” organised by Marcel Worring  (UvA, The Netherlands) and Mohan Kankanhalli  (NUS, Singapore).

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