Call for Participation

            ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge

                         ACM Multimedia 2011

             Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Nov.28-Dec.1, 2011

                        http://www.acmmm11.org


What problems  do Yahoo, HP,  Nokia, Technicolor, 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  has  established  itself  as  a prestigious  competition  in  the
multimedia  community.  This   year's  conference  will  continue  the
tradition with both ongoing as well as brand new challenges.

Topics include:
    * HP Challenge: High Impact Visual Communication
    * Technicolor Challenge: Sports Activity Analysis in Camera Networks
    * Nokia Challenge: Visual Landmark Recognition
    * Yahoo! Video Challenge: Robust Automatic Segmentation of Video
      According to Narrative Themes
    * Yahoo! Image Challenge: Novel Image Understanding

with more challenges to be added during this month (March).

Submissions should:
    * Significantly address one of the challenges posted on the Grand
      Challenge web site.
    * Depict working, presentable systems or demos.
    * Describe why the system presents a novel and interesting solution.

Preference is given  to results that are reproducible  by the research
community, e.g. where  the data and the source  code is made available
publicly.

The top entries will be  published in the proceedings and presented in
a special  event during the MM  2011 conference in  Arizona.  Based on
the  presentation,  winners  will  be  selected  for  Grand  Challenge
awards. At  the conference, participants (if  accepted) will introduce
the  idea  shortly  to the  audience,  give  a  quick demo,  and  take
difficult questions from the judges. Based on the presentation and the
submission, a team  of judges and the attending  crowd will select the
top contributors.

DEADLINE: June 6th, 2011.

For more information visit:
http://www.acmmm11.org/content-call-multimedia-grand-challenge-solutions.html

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