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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
*Multimedia Grand Challenge*
http://www.multimediagrandchallenge.com/
ACM Multimedia 2010
October 25-29th 2010, Firenze, Italy
http://www.acmmm10.org
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What problems do Google, Yahoo!, HP, Radvision, CeWe, Nokia and other
companies see driving the future of multimedia? The Multimedia Grand
Challenge is a set of problems and issues from these industry leaders,
geared to engage the Multimedia research community towards solving
relevant, interesting and challenging questions in the multimedia
industry’s 2-5 year horizon. 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 are encouraged to
submit working systems in response to these challenges to win the grand
Challenge competition!
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*Challenges*
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3DLife Sport Camera Networks
CeWe Photo Set Theme Identification
Google Personal Diaries
Google Video Genre Classification
HP Visual Communication
Nokia Photo Location & Orientation
Radvision Content Adaptation
Radvision VideoConf Experience
Yahoo! Novel Image Understanding
Yahoo! Video Segmentation
We encourage you to consider the challenges and submit your contribution
to the ACM Multimedia 2010 Grand Challenge track. The top submissions
will be presented in a special event during the ACM Multimedia 2010
conference in Florence Italy. Based on these oral presentations in
Florence, winners will be selected for Grand Challenge awards worth 1500
USD.
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*Paper Submission*
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New in 2010: _any_ long, short or demo paper submitted to the regular
ACM Multimedia conference can be considered for the Grand Challenge.
Regular papers that want to be considered should submit a 1-page
additional statement indicating why this work addresses a certain
challenge best. In addition, papers, demonstrations and ideas that do
not fit the normal scientific style may be submitted to the Grand
Challenge by submitting a separate 4-page paper to the Grand Challenge
only. (We are afraid that we will NOT consider papers in this path that
have been rejected for the scientific program.)
A 1-page statement to accompany an _accepted_ paper or a new 4-page
grand challenge paper should be prepared in double-column ACM
proceedings style and submitted via http://edas.info/N8591
The submissions must:
o Significantly address one of the industry challenges posted on the
Grand Challenge web site.
o Depict working, presentable systems or demos.
o Describe why the system presents a novel and interesting solution.
A number of solutions (perhaps 10-20) will be selected as finalists and
invited to describe their work, demonstrate their solution and argue for
the paper's success in the Grand Challenge Session in Florence. Each
finalist will have several minutes to present their case. Final
winner(s) will be chosen by industry scientists, engineers and business
luminaries.
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*Key Dates*
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August 1, 2010 Submission deadline
September 1, 2010 Acceptance notification
October 25, 2010 Conference starts
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*Contact*
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Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo! Research, USA ([log in to unmask])
Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ([log in to unmask])
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