The Multimedia Grand Challenge: Call for Submissions and Participation

$3000 Prizes and Submission Details Announced; see here for more details: http://multimediagrandchallenge.com. Sponsored by Google, HP Labs, Nokia and Yahoo!

What problems do Google, Yahoo, HP, Radvision, CeWe, Nokia and other companies see in the future of multimedia? The Multimedia Grand Challenge is a set of problems and issues from these (and other) industry leaders, geared to engage the Multimedia research community in solving relevant, interesting and challenging questions about the industry’s 2-5 year horizon for multimedia. The Grand Challenge is initially presented as part of ACM Multimedia 2009. Researchers will be encouraged to submit working systems in response to the challenge to win the Grand Challenge competition!

Can you solve these problems?

We encourage you to consider the challenges and submit your contribution or solution to the ACM Multimedia 2009 Grand Challenge track (submission details forthcoming on this blog).

The top submissions will be presented in a special event during the MM 2009 conference in Beijing. Based on the presentation, winners will be selected for Grand Challenge awards. Yes, there will also be prizes (TBD – watch for details on these pages).

Submission instructions

A submission will consist of a two-page summary to the ACM MM Grand Challenge track; the authors may include a link to an online demo or video. The submissions must:

1. Significantly address one of the industry challenges posted on the Grand Challenge web site.
2. Depict working, presentable systems or demos.

At the conference, you (if accepted) will introduce the idea shortly to the audience, give a quick demo, and take short questions from the judges. Based on your presentation, a team of judges and the attending crowd will select the top contributors.

Specific submission instructions will be made available on the Grand Challenge blog. Submission of extended description of the work to other MM 2009 tracks is highly recommended; Grand Challenge submissions that are accompanied by other MM 2009 accepted publications would receive priority.

Key Dates

Learn more

The Grand Challenge blog hosts the different challenges, updates about the Grand Challenge, and invites discussion via comments.

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Contact

For details, questions, or to participate as a corporate partner, email:
Mor Naaman: [firstname] –at– scils.rutgers.edu.

New industry challenges are welcome until the end of February.

Organizers:

Grand Challenge Co-chairs

Mor Naaman, Rutgers University ([firstname] –at– scils.rutgers.edu)

Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore

Academic Steering Committee:

David Ayman Shamma, Yahoo! Research, USA

Susanne Boll, Oldenburg University, Germany

Noel E O’Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland

Industrial Partners:

CeWe-Sabine Thieme-[first].[last] -at- cewecolor.de

Nokia-Timo Pylvanainen-[first].[last] -at- nokia.com

Google-Jay Yagnik-jyagnik -at- [company].com

Yahoo-Kaushal Kurapati-kaushalk -at- [company]-inc.com

Radvision-Sagee Ben Zeddef-[firstname] -at- radvision.com

HP-Qian Lin-[first].[last] -at- hp.com