Winners of the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009

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.]