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In case you missed it, here is the winner of the best presentation award at the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009.

Christoph Kofler, Mathias Lux: Dynamic presentation adaptation based on user intent classification.

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, [...]

We’re getting close! Just over a month from today, the Multimedia Grand Challenge will be presented in a dynamic, American-Idol style event at ACM Multimedia 2009. The MMGC session is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009, 16:30-18:00; at the Jewel Room of the conference venue, the Beijing Hotel.
David Ayman Shamma of Yahoo! Research will be [...]

We are all set for the Multimedia Grand Challenge at ACM MM 2009 in Beijing! The details of the (hopefully novel and entertaining) MMGC session at the conference will be posted soon. In the meantime, here is the list of accepted challenge responses, according to the challenge they address.
Responses to Google Challenge: Video Genre Classification

Xiao [...]

We have been getting various queries asking about what kind of content is expected for the two-page submission to the Multimedia Grand Challenge. While there are no specific guidelines, there is one main thing to keep in mind:

Convince us that your method is interesting, innovative, promising and that you will have something to show if [...]

We are delighted to announce that thanks to our generous sponsors (Google, HP Labs, Nokia and Yahoo!), the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009 will offer a total of $3000 in prizes, including a first prize of $1500. See the Prizes section for (limited) details.
In other news, the submission site is now open, with submissions Due on [...]

Stay tuned for information about submission and (most excitingly) a grand prize for the Grand Challenge coming very soon on this blog. In the meantime, Jay just posted about the Google Challenge on the Google Research Blog.

We are still working on creating a ground truth set for Nokia’s Photo location & orientation Challenge. For the time being, we are glad to provide a larger data set (zip file), for which we unfortunately do not have the ground truth yet. This set also includes calibration grid images. All the images were taken [...]

As we mentioned earlier, the Grand Challenge committee will give preference for submissions that are accompanied by other conference submissions. When we say “other conference submission” we primarily refer, of course, to full paper submissions.
With that in mind, we just wanted to remind everyone that the MM2009 full paper deadline is April 17th; April 10th [...]