MM

Welcome to the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), held September 24-29, 2007 at University of Augsburg in the beautiful and historic city of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. The city was founded 15 BC in the reign of Roman emperor Augustus.

ACM Multimedia is the premier annual professional meeting for communicating the state-of-the-art in multimedia research, technology, and art. As in previous years, starting with the first ACM Multimedia conference in 1993, the conference seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, and government who are interested in exploring and exploiting new and multiple media to create new capabilities for human expression, communication, collaboration, and interaction. ACM Multimedia covers all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices.

Multimedia is an interdisciplinary endeavor, and the variety of conference events reflects this. The overall conference encompasses three major parts: interesting tutorials on Monday, September 24, an exciting three day main conference on Tuesday through Thursday, September 25-27, and a set of workshops in hot multimedia areas on Friday and Saturday, September 28-29.

The three-day main conference comprises several different technical program elements, each with separate submissions and reviewing: full papers, short papers, a panel, the doctoral symposium, a Brave New Topics session, technical demonstrations, a video program, an open source contest, and the Interactive Arts Program. We are excited to host two research keynote presentations by Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster of DFKI and the University of Saarland and Dr. Minoru Etoh of NTT DoCoMo, who will give unique perspectives of their research work in academia and industry. In addition two high-profile applications keynotes will be given by Dr. Fageth of CeWe Color, Europe's number one photo services company, and Dr. Lutz Heuser of SAP AG.