TUM BGD co-organizes workshop on UAVs at ACM Multimedia

For the third consecutive year, the BGD Chair was represented at ACM Multimedia. This year, BGD contributed to the event by co-organizing the third annual Workshop on UAVs in Multimedia: Capturing the World from a New Perspective (UAVM). Fabian Deuser co-organized the workshop on behalf of BGD, helping shape one of the conference’s thematic tracks. The event featured two keynote speakers: Daniel-André Dücker from the Technical University of Munich and Zhedong Zheng from the University of Macau. They addressed topics such as underwater robotics, aerial spatial intelligence, and the challenges of autonomous perception in GPS-denied or visually degraded environments. With over 100 teams registered for the research challenge and 14 papers accepted, the UAVM workshop provided a forum dedicated to drone-based multimedia research. Topics covered included aerial image and video processing, machine learning for UAV data, swarm coordination, and UAV-enabled applications. Within ACM Multimedia, the workshop continues to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on the challenges and opportunities that arise when UAVs become a central platform for capturing and interpreting large-scale visual data.