[4eyes] FW: [ACM MM 2010] Multimedia Grand Challenge - Extra prize money announcement

[Matthew Turk]

FYI - this is something I'd love to see MAT and/or FourEyes students
participating in - if not this year, at some point in the near future.

See the descriptions of the 10 grand challenges at
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/conferences/mmchallenge/. 

	Matthew

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Subject: [ACM MM 2010] Multimedia Grand Challenge - Extra prize money
announcement

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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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*Prize Money*
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We are happy to inform you that this year's Grand Challenge will award three
prizes:

Gold medal       1500 USD
Silver medal     1000 USD
Bronze medal      500 USD


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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 winners 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 (malcolm at ieee.org)
Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (cgmsnoek at uva.nl)