Open Source Competition
Starting in 2004, ACM Multimedia hosts an Open Source competition, providing an award for the best Open Source computer program(s).
- 2011:
- Winner: J. Hare, S. Samangooei, D. Dupplaw, “OpenIMAJ and ImageTerrier: Java Libraries and Tools for Scalable Multimedia Analysis and Indexing of Images”
- Honorable Mention:“ClassX – An Open Source Interactive Lecture Streaming System” “Opencast Matterhorn 1.1: Reaching New Heights” Presented by Profs. Pablo Cesar and Wei Tsang Ooi
- 2010:
- Andrea Vedaldi, Brian Fulkerson, VLFeat – An open and portable library of computer vision algorithms – VLFeat
- Rob Hess, An Open-Source SIFT Library – Open-Source SIFT
- Florian Eyben, Martin Woellmer, Bjoern Schuller, openSMILE – The Munich Versatile and Fast Open-Source Audio Feature Extractor – openSMILE
- 2009: Caliph & Emir, MPEG-7 photo annotation and retrieval
- 2008: Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM).
- 2007: Programming Web Multimedia Applications with Hop.
- 2006: CLAM (C++ Library for Audio and Music) (CLAM), an open source framework for audio and music research and application development.
- 2005: OpenVIDIA, a GPU accelerated Computer Vision Library.
- 2004: Two winners
- ChucK, an audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, performance, and analysis.
- Flavor, A Formal Language for Audio-Visual Object Representation
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