Special Interest Groups

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ACM's Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) has named Liqiang Nie of Shandong University the recipient of the 2020 Rising Star Award in multimedia computing, communications and applications for his significant contributions in data-driven multimodal learning and knowledge-guided multimodal reasoning. His research interests lie primarily in multimedia content analysis and search.

ACM's Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) has named John R. Smith the recipient of its 2020 Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Award in recognition of his outstanding and pioneering and continued research contributions to multimedia content analysis and retrieval and for outstanding and continued service to the multimedia community.

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ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) regularly cite outstanding individuals for their contributions in more than 30 distinct technological fields.