Overview
The Multimedia Grand Challenge presents a set of problems and issues from industry leaders, geared to engage the Multimedia research community in solving relevant, interesting and challenging questions about the industry’s 3-5 year vision for multimedia.
The Multimedia Grand Challenge was first presented as part of ACM Multimedia 2009 and has established itself as a prestigious competition in the multimedia community. This year’s conference will continue the tradition with by repeating previous challenges, and by introducing brand new challenges.
Challenges
- NHK – Where is beauty? Grand Challenge
- Technicolor - Rich Multimedia Retrieval from Input Videos Grand Challenge
- Yahoo! – Large-scale Flickr-tag Image Classification Grand Challenge
- Huawei/3DLife - 3D human reconstruction and action recognition Grand Challenge
- MediaMixer/VideoLectures.NET – Temporal Segmentation and Annotation Grand Challenge
- Microsoft: MSR – Bing Image Retrieval Grand Challenge
Submissions should:
- Significantly address one of the challenges posted on the web site.
- Depict working, presentable systems or demos, using the grand challenge dataset where provided.
- Describe why the system presents a novel and interesting solution.
Submission Guidelines
The submissions (max 4 pages) should be formatted according to ACM Multimedia formatting guidelines. The submissions should be formatted according to ACM Multimedia formatting guidelines. Multimedia Grand Challenge reviewing is Double-blind so authors shouldn’t reveal their identity in the paper. The finalists will be selected by a committee consisting of academia and industry representatives, based on novelty, presentation, scientific interest of the approache and, for the evaluation-based challenges, on the performance against the task.
Finalist submissions will be published in the conference proceedings, and will be presented in a special event during the ACM Multimedia 2013 conference in Barcelona, Spain. At the conference, finalists will be requested to introduce their solutions, give a quick demo, and take questions from the judges and the audience.
Winners will be selected for Multimedia Grand Challenge awards based on their presentation.
An additional prize (sponsored by Technicolor) will be awarded to the most innovative multimodal solution.
Submission System
The Multimedia Grand Challenge submission system (easyChair) is:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmgc2013
Important Dates
| Challenges Announced: | February 25, 2013 |
| Paper Submission Deadline: | July 1, 2013 (23:59 UTC-11) |
| Notification of Acceptance: | July 29, 2013 |
| Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: | August 12, 2013 |
Contact
For any questions regarding the Grand Challenges please email the Multimedia Grand Challenge Solutions Chairs:
Neil O’Hare (Yahoo!, Spain) nohare -at- yahoo-inc.com
Yiannis Kompatsiaris (CERTH, Greece) ikom -at- iti.gr
