The finalists for the multimedia grand challenge are known. We received many good submissions this year. We have given preference to contributions that have been backed by an accepted paper from the regular program and included only the most suitable ones that
- Significantly address one of the industry grand challenges.
- Depict working, presentable systems or demos.
- Describe why the system presents a novel and interesting solution.
The 2010 Multimedia Grand Challenge will feature the following presentations:
| Title | Authors | Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| A low-cost performance analysis and coaching system for tennis | Philip T Kelly; Petros Daras; Noel. E. O’Connor; Juan Diego Pérez-Moneo Agapito | 3DLife |
| Human Body Tracking of Tennis Players using Hierarchical Particle Filtering and Variable Windows | Adolfo López-Méndez; Marcel Alcoverro; Montse Pardas; Josep R. Casas | 3DLife |
| Audience Dependent Photo Collection Summarization | Pere Obrador, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Nuria Oliver | CeWe |
| Social Game Epitome versus Automatic Visual Analysis | Peter Vajda; Ivan Ivanov; Lutz Goldmann; Touradj Ebrahimi | HP |
| Learning-to-Photograph towards HP Challenge | Bin Cheng, Bingbing Ni, Shuicheng Yan, Qi Tian | HP |
| Using Android and Indoor Localization for Diaries | Eladio Martin; Oriol Vinyals; Gerald Friedland; Ruzena Bajcsy | Google diaries |
| Improving Personal Diaries Using Social Audio Features | Michael Kuhn, Roger Wattenhofer, Samuel Welten | Google diaries |
| Google Challenge 2010: Efficient Genre-specific Semantic Video Indexing | Jun Wu; Marcel Worring | Google video genre |
| Video Classification based on Contextual Visual Vocabulary | Shiliang Zhang, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Qingming Huang, Shuqiang Jiang, Wen Gao | Google video genre |
| VIRaL: Visual Image Retrieval and Localization | Yannis Avrithis, Yannis Kalantidis, Giorgos Tolias | Nokia |
| ROI-based Content Adaptation for Mobile Device Usage of Video Conferencing | Wei Song, Dian Tjondronegoro, Ivan Himawan | Radvision adapt |
| Gaze Awareness and Interaction Support in Presentations: Video Conference Experience Grand Challenge Statement | Kar-Han Tan; Dan Gelb; Ramin Samadani; Ian N Robinson; Bruce Culbertson; John Apostolopoulos | Radvision video conf |
| Rendering Panorama in Mobile Video Conferencing | Shu Shi; Zhengyou Zhang | Radvision video conf |
| Multi-Scale Entropy analysis of Dominance in Social Creative Activities | Donald Glowinski; Paolo Coletta; Maurizio Mancini | Radvision video conf |
| Searching and Browsing Social Images through iAVATAR | Aixin Sun; Sourav Bhowmick | Yahoo classification |
| Understanding Affect in Images | Jana Machajdik, Allan Hanbury, Julian Stöttinger | Yahoo classification |
| Introducing topic segmentation and segmented-based browsing tools into a content based video retrieval system | Julien Law-To; Gregory Grefenstette; Jean-Luc Gauvain; Guillaume Gravier; Lori Lamel; Julien | Yahoo segmentation |
| Towards Yahoo! Challenge: A Generic Event Detection and Segmentation System for Video Navigation and Search | Tianzhu Zhang, Changsheng Xu, Guangyu Zhu, Si Liu, Hanqing Lu | Yahoo segmentation |







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