MMSYS

The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, real-time system, and database communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to view the intersections and the inter-play of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types.

An important and unique aspect of MMSys is that we encourage the use of common datasets for experimentation leading to reproducible research. The dataset track provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to make their work available and citable. Authors publishing data sets will benefit by increasing the public awareness of their effort in collecting the data sets. Additionally, MMSys provides researchers, engineers, and scientist to present the opportunity to showcase their research prototypes, systems, and applications to MMSys attendees. Therefore, the demo session is intended as real, practical, and interactive proof of the presenters' research ideas and scientific or engineering contributions, with the goal of providing multimedia researchers and practitioners with the opportunity to discuss working multimedia systems, applications, prototypes, or proof-of-concepts.

This year's edition of MMSys features two special sessions, one on augmented reality and one on media synchronization. The former deals especially with systems issues and integration of technologies, and often involves innovative system design as well the development of novel system components. The latter addresses latest advances and remaining challenges on media synchronization to accommodate emerging forms of immersive, personalized and ultra-realistic media experiences in our multi-sensory, multi-protocol and multi-device world.