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Winners of the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009 – Multimedia Grand Challenge 2010
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Winners of the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009

Oct 26th, 2009
by mor.

We are very happy to announce the winners of the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009.
The challenge presentation took place last week in Beijing, during ACM Multimedia 2009. The session was a plenary session (read: no other presentations were going on at the same time), which meant a large crowd that, as far as I can tell, enjoyed the show. All the participants did a fantastic job, delivering engaging and interesting 3-minute presentations about their Grand Challenge responses, and Ayman Shamma masterfully hosted the event, entertaining and informing as needed.
But a number of presentations rose above the others. Here are the prizes awarded by our judges to the different presentations:

  • Grand Challenge Winner: Gerald Friedland, Luke Gottlieb, Adam Janin. Joke-o-mat: Browsing Sitcoms Punchline by Punchline (response to the Yahoo! video challenge — see video below).
  • Most Practical: Julien Law-To, Gregory Grefenstette, Jean-Luc Gauvain. VoxaleadNews: Robust Automatic Segmentation of Video into Browsable Content (response to the Yahoo! video challenge).
  • Best Presentation: Christoph Kofler, Mathias Lux. Dynamic presentation adaptation based on user intent classification (response to the Yahoo! image challenge).
  • Most Entertaining: Jongeun Cha, Mohamad Eid, Ahmad Barghout, Abu Saleh Md. Mahfujur Tahman, Abdulmotaleb Ei Saddik. HugMe: Synchronous Haptic Teleconferencing (response to the Radvision Video Conferencing Experience challenge).
  • HP Honorable Mention: Tewson Seeoun, Choochart Haruechaiyasek, Toshiaki Kondo. Identifying Auxiliary Web Images Using Combination of Analyses (response to the HP challenge).

Congratulations to all the winners! For your pleasure, a video version of the winning presentation is embedded below. Soon on these pages: pictures and more videos from the event, and details of the MMGC 2010 - see you in Florence!

[Updated: spelling correction.]

Posted in: Google, HP, Radvision, Uncategorized, Yahoo!.

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5 Comments on “Winners of the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009”

  1. #1 Greg
    on Oct 28th, 2009 at 9:50 am

    The correct spelling is “Jean-Luc Gauvain”

  2. #2 mor
    on Oct 28th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    Thanks, and sorry. Fixed.

  3. #3 Exalead Nabs ACM Award at the Multimedia Grand Challenge : Beyond Search
    on Nov 5th, 2009 at 6:07 am

    [...] eDiscovery, competitive intelligence, and social networking.For more information, visit the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009 Web page. You can also test drive Voxalead News and other Exalead innovations at the Exalabs [...]

  4. #4 SemanticMetadata.net » Grand Challenge Winners? In a way :)
    on Nov 12th, 2009 at 4:55 am

    [...] happy top blog about it myself: Christoph Kofler and Mathias Lux (that’s me, right) have won the Best Presentation Award of the Multimedia Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia [...]

  5. #5 Mathias Lux
    on Nov 12th, 2009 at 4:56 am

    Thanks for the coverage :) Find the video for the best presentation online here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTjKQkiPCSU

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