Workshops

The ACM MM 2023 Workshop Chairs: Yan Tong (TONGY@cse.sc.edu), Chengcui Zhang (czhang02@uab.edu), and Zhihan Lv (zhihan.lyu@speldesign.uu.se) invite you to participate the following workshops:

  1. The 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports’23)
  2. The 4th International Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge and Workshop (MuSe 2023)
  3. The 1st International Workshop on Deep Multimodal Learning for Information Retrieval
  4. The 4th International Workshop on Human-centric Multimedia Analysis (HCMA)
  5. Advanced Multimedia Computing for Smart Manufacturing and Engineering
  6. The 2nd Workshop on User-Centric Narrative Summarization of Long Videos
  7. The 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Generation and Evaluation: New Methods and Practice (McGE)
  8. The 5th workshop on the analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents (SUMAC 2023)
  9. The 2nd International Workshop on Interactive eXtended Reality (IXR’23)
  10. The 1st Workshop and Challenge on DeepFake Analysis and Detection (DFAD)
  11. The 1st Workshop on Large Generative Models Meet Multimodal Applications (LGM3A 2023)
  12. The 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa2023)
  13. Facial Micro-Expression Workshop (FME23)
  14. UAVs in Multimedia: Capturing the World from a New Perspective (UVAM’23)
  15. ACM Multimedia-23 Workshop on Generative AI and Multimodal LLM for Finance (GenerativeAI4Finance)
  16. Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing

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  1. The 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports’23)

Organizers List: 

Rainer Lienhart, Thomas Moeslund, and Hideo Saito

Workshop Summary:

Athletic endeavors, both at amateur and professional level, have a tremendous economic, political, and cultural influence on our society. The influence of rapidly developing technologies has changed the way of how we sense, participate, watch, analyze, understand, and research sports. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from many different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports.

Website: http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2023/index.html

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2) The 4th International Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge and Workshop (MuSe 2023)

Organizers List: 

Shahin Amiriparian, Björn W. Schuller, Erik Cambria, Andreas König, Alan Cowen, Eva-Maria Meßner, and

Lukas Christ

Workshop Summary:

The main motivation of Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge and Workshop (MuSe) is to foster progress in empathetic dialogue systems and conversational sentiment analysis by offering several sub-challenges comprising a wide variety of tasks. Another aim of MuSe is to compare the strengths and weaknesses of the provided modalities (audio, visual, physiological, social, and textual cues), as well as methods to leverage the complementarity of different modalities.

Website: https://www.muse-challenge.org/

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3) The 1st International Workshop on Deep Multimodal Learning for Information Retrieval

Organizers List: 

Wei Ji, Yinwei Wei, Zhedong Zheng, Hao Fei, and Tat-seng Chua

Workshop Summary:

Benefiting from a variety of data types and modalities, some latest prevailing techniques are invented to show great facilitation in multimodal and Information retrieval (IR) learning, such as CLIP, ChatGPT, GPT4, etc. Given the great potential shown by multimodal-empowered IR, there can be still unsolved challenges and open questions in the related directions. This workshop will provide a platform for discussion about multimodal IR among scholars, practitioners, and other interested parties.

Website: https://VRU-NExT.github.io/MMIR23/

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4) The 4th International Workshop on Human-centric Multimedia Analysis (HCMA)

Organizers List: 

Jingkuan Song, Wu Liu, Dingwen Zhang, Wenbing Huang, and John Smith

Workshop Summary:

The purpose of this workshop is to: 1) bring together the state-of-the-art research on human-centric multimedia analysis; 2) call for a coordinated effort to understand the opportunities and challenges emerging in human-centric multimedia analysis; 3) identify key tasks and evaluate the state-of-the-art methods; 4) showcase innovative methodologies and ideas; 5) introduce interesting real-world human-centric multimedia analysis systems or applications; and 6) propose new real-world datasets and discuss future directions.

Website: https://hcma2023.github.io/

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5) Advanced Multimedia Computing for Smart Manufacturing and Intelligent Engineering

Organizers List: 

Junxin Chen, Wei Wang, Houbing Song, Gwanggil Jeon, Burak Kantarci, Abdellah Chehri, Shiping Wen,  Benguo He,  and Amit Kumar Singh

Workshop Summary:

Advanced industry multimedia computing technologies dedicates to the analysis, understanding, management, and query of industry multimedia data such as digital video, digital image, and digital audio. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together state-of-the-art research on industry multimedia computing, discuss and understand the opportunities and challenges emerging in industry multimedia computing, and introduce interesting real-world advanced industry multimedia computing applications.

Website: https://amc-sme.github.io/2023/

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6) The 2nd Workshop on User-Centric Narrative Summarization of Long Videos

Organizers List: 

Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Ioannis (Yiannis) Patras, Jianquan Liu, Yongkang Wong, and Takahiro Komamizu

Workshop Summary:

The aim of this workshop is to focus on the novel problem of narrative summarization of long videos. It introduces novel perspectives into the task of video summarization. Understanding the underlying semantics of the video is important to generate a non-subjective and explainable summarization. Together with the researchers who work on this topic, we would like to discuss the challenges of this topic, including algorithm design, dataset/benchmark generation, evaluation metric, privacy preservation and other emerging issues.

Website: https://narsum.cf/

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7) The 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Generation and Evaluation: New Methods and Practice (McGE)

Organizers List: 

Cheng Jin, Liang He, Mingli Song, and Rui Wang

Workshop Summary:

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss state-of-the-art research, novel techniques, and practical applications in multimedia content generation, quality assessment, datasets, and construction.

Website: http://mcge.42web.io/

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8) The 5th workshop on the analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents (SUMAC 2023)

Organizers List: 

Valerie Gouet-Brunet, Ronak Kosti, and Li Weng

Workshop Summary:

The goal of this workshop is to annually bring together experts to present and discuss the latest and most important developments in the analysis, structuring, understanding and visualization of multimedia content related to the promotion and preservation of cultural heritage. The emphasis is on unlocking, accessing, and understanding those big data of the past.

Website: https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2023/.

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9) The 2nd International Workshop on Interactive eXtended Reality (IXR’23)

Organizers List: 

Irene Viola, Hadi Amirpour, Stephanie Arévalo Arboleda, and Maria Torres Vega

Workshop Summary:

Over the years the development and optimization of multimedia systems from traditional media (static 2D imagery and 2D video) to immersive media (manipulable 3D and XR) have been tailored towards delivering better experiences in remote communication. This workshop focuses on the challenges, applications, and major advancements in multimedia, networks and end-user infrastructures to enable the next generation of interactive XR applications and services.

Website: https://ixr2023.itec.aau.at/

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10) The 1st Workshop and Challenge on DeepFake Analysis and Detection (DFAD)

Organizers List: 

Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara, Alessandro Nicolosi, and Dmitry Kangin

Workshop Summary:

This workshop focuses on the development of benchmarks and tools for Fake data Understanding and Detection, with the final goal of protecting from visual disinformation and misuse of generated images, and to monitor the progress of existing and proposed solutions for detection. It also hosts a competition on deepfake detection and is organised with the support of the ELSA project – the European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI, which builds on and extends the existing internationally recognized and excellently positioned ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) network of excellence.

Website: ailb-web.ing.unimore.it/mdfad2023/

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11) The 1st Workshop on Large Generative Models Meet Multimodal Applications (LGM3A 2023)

Organizers List: 

Zheng Wang, Cheng Long, Shihao Xu, Bingzheng Gan, Wei Shi, Zhao Cao, and Tat-Seng Chua

Workshop Summary:

This workshop aims to explore the potential of large language models to revolutionize the way we interact with multimodal information. With the increasing amount of multimodal information such as audio, visual, and text data generated, there is a growing need to leverage large generative language model for multimodal applications. The workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to explore the latest trends and best practices in the field of multimodal applications of large generative models.

Website: https://lgm3a2023.github.io/LGM3A2023/

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12) The 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa2023)

Organizers List: 

Stavroula Mougiakakou, Keiji Yanai, and Dario Allegra

Workshop Summary:

The main scope of MADiMa2023 is to bring together researchers from the diverse fields of engineering, computer science and nutrition who investigate the use of information and communication technologies for better monitoring, assessment, and management of food intake. The combined use of multimedia, machine learning algorithms, ubiquitous computing and mobile technologies permits the development of applications and systems able to monitor the dietary behavior, analyze food intake, identify eating patterns, and provide feedback to the user towards healthier nutrition.

Website: https://madima.org/

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13) Facial Micro-Expression Workshop (FME23)

Organizers List: 

Adrian K. Davison, Jingting Li, Moi Hoon Yap, John See, Xiaobai Li, Wen-Huang Cheng, Xiaopeng Hong, and Su-Jing Wang

Workshop Summary:

This workshop explores the intelligent analysis of personal emotions through facial expressions, with particular emphasis on micro-expression analysis to study hidden emotions. Further, a focus on multi-modal approaches and novel generation techniques will be encouraged.

Website: megc2023.github.io/workshop.html

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14) UAVs in Multimedia: Capturing the World from a New Perspective (UAVM’23)

Organizers List: 

Zhedong Zheng, Yujiao Shi, Tingyu Wang, Jun Liu, Jianwu Fang, Yunchao Wei, and Tat-seng Chua

Workshop Summary:

This workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts interested in UAV multimedia to explore the latest advancements, challenges, and opportunities in this exciting field. The workshop will cover various topics related to UAV multimedia, including aerial image and video processing, machine learning for UAV data analysis, UAV swarm technology, and UAV-based multimedia applications.

Website: https://www.zdzheng.xyz/ACMMM2023Workshop

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15) ACM Multimedia-23 Workshop on Generative AI and Multimodal LLM for Finance (GenerativeAI4Finance)

Organizers List: 

Dinesh Manocha, Franck Dernoncourt, Fu-Ming Guo, Puneet Mathur, Ramit Sawhney

Workshop Summary:

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from various domains such as natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition, machine learning, statistics, and quantitative analysis to explore Generative AI and Multimodal LLMs to solve financial forecasting and prediction problems. To further motivate and direct attention to unsolved problems in this domain, we will organize a shared task on the exciting yet unexplored topic of “Stock Forecasting from Conference Call Videos”.

Website: : https://generativeai4finance-mm23.github.io/

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16) Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing

Track 1: Affective Computing in Multimedia

Organizers List: 

Jianhua Tao, Zheng Lian, Erik Cambria, Björn W. Schuller, and Guoying Zhao

Track Summary:

In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers from the fields of multimodal modeling of human affect, modality robustness of affect recognition, low-resource affect recognition, human affect synthesis in multimedia, privacy in affective computing, and applications in health, education, entertainment, etc., to further discuss recent research and future directions for affective computing in multimedia. At the same time, we intend to provide a communication platform for all participants of MER 2023, to systematically evaluate the robustness of emotion recognition systems and promote applications of this technology in practice.

Website: http://merchallenge.cn/workshop

Track 2: REACT: REsponsible Affective CompuTing

Organizers List: 

Shreya Ghosh, Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, and Tom Gedeon

Track Summary:

Affective computing research is engaged with ethics at different stages, from training of emotionally intelligent models with enormous amount of human data to deploying the code in application specific environment. In principal, the development of any AI system must be guided by a concern for its human impact. The aim should be striving to augment and enhance humans, not replace human; while taking inspiration from human intelligence. The REACT 2023 workshop aims to transfer the same concept to small-scale, lab based environment to real-world, large-scale corpus enhanced with responsibility. The workshop also focuses to bring attention of the researchers and industry professionals on the potential implications of Emotional-AI developments and evaluating the moral and ethical consequences. T

Website: https://react-ws.github.io/2023/