About The MMGC
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 was first presented as part of ACM Multimedia 2009. and it will be presented again in slightly modified form at ACM Multimedia 2010. Researchers will be encouraged to submit working systems in response to the challenge to win the grand Challenge competition!
We encourage you to consider the challenges and submit your contribution or solution to the ACM Multimedia 2010 Grand Challenge track (submission details for 2010 forthcoming on this blog).
The top submissions will be presented in a special event during the MM 2010 conference in Florence. 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).
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:
- Significantly address one of the industry challenges posted on the Grand Challenge web site.
- 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 2010 tracks is highly recommended; Grand Challenge submissions that are accompanied by other MM 2010 accepted publications would receive priority.
Key Dates
Dates will be updated for the 2010 edition soon.
- May 07, 2010: Submission deadline
- July 05, 2010: Acceptance Notification
- July 26, 2010: Camera-ready version
- Oct 25-29 (tbd), 2010: Conference Presentation
Learn more
This 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:
Malcolm Slaney: malcolm –at– ieee.org
Cees Snoek: cgmsnoek –at– uva.nl
New industry challenges are welcome until the end of February.
Organizers
Grand Challenge Co-chairs
Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo! Research, USA (malcolm –at– ieee.org)
Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (cgmsnoek –at– uva.nl)
Academic Steering Committee
David Ayman Shamma, Yahoo! Research, USA
Susanne Boll, Oldenburg University, Germany
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore
Noel E O’Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Mor Naaman, Rutgers University
Industrial Partners and contact details
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
Accenture - Manoj Seshadrinathan - [first].[last] -at- accenture.com
Current TV - Frank Lentz - f[last] -at- currentmedia.com
