ACM Open-Source of the Year Award

We win Open-Source of the Year Award ACM Multimedia 2012 conference through the paper „UltraGrid: Low-latency high-quality video transitions using commodity HW“.

Nara (Japan)
The UltraGrid technology, developed by CESNET specialists at Brno-based laboratory SITOLA, was appraised at the prestigious ACM Multimedia 2012 conference. The 20th annual congress of researchers dealing with multimedia content and processing took place in Nara, Japan, on 29 October to 2 November. The ACM Multimedia 2012: The Best Open-Source Software Award was accepted in person by Petr Holub, head of the UltraGrid team of CESNET. ACM Multimedia conference has the highest ranking (A to A+) among similiar events in computer science. Measured by citation impact, it ranks among the 15% most succesful conferences in the field. The UltraGrid technology was enrolled in the „Best Open-Source Software Competition“ through the paper titled „UltraGrid: Low-latency high-quality video transitions using commodity hardware“ by Petr Holub, Jiri Matela, Martin Pulec and Martin Srom. It has won the award based on the quality of the software, the paper, and the final presentation during the conference.