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ACM's Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) has named Ting Yao the recipient of the 2019 Rising Star Award in multimedia computing, communications and applications for his significant contributions in activity recognition and video captioning. He was one of the first scholars to use deep learning for image/video captioning, and is known for his work on context mining for effective search of multimedia content.

ACM's Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) has named Mubarak Shah the recipient of its 2019 Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Award in recognition of his outstanding and pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of multimedia content analysis and multimedia applications, for leadership in education, 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.