ACM Multimedia 2013 - Call for Workshop Proposals (Regular and Challenge-based)
http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-workshop-proposals/

We invite proposals for Regular Workshops for the ACM Multimedia 2013 Conference. Accepted workshops will take place during the main conference, which is scheduled for October 21-25, 2013 in Barcelona, Spain.

The regular workshops should focus on current or emerging topics of broad interest to ACM Multimedia. They should allow members of the community to compare and discuss approaches, methods, and new concepts on research topics pertinent to the main conference.  Interdisciplinary topics that bring new perspectives to the multimedia research community are of particular interest.

We are also seeking organizers to propose Challenge-Based Workshops. Both academic and corporate organizers are welcome. We are looking for two types of challenge-based workshops:

Data-driven challenge-based workshops. The organizers will provide a dataset that is exemplary of the complexities of current and future multimodal/ multimedia problems, and one or more multimodal/ multimedia tasks whose performance can be objectively measured. Participants in the Challenge will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify areas of strengths and weakness. Best performing participating methods will be presented in the form of papers and oral/poster presentations at the workshop.
Concept challenge-based workshops. This challenge proposes new ideas (e.g. involving new sensors/ media) that, while not fully tested now, could lead to breakthroughs if the multimedia community decided to tackle them together or individually. The organizers may provide a dataset regarding the concept in question on which the participants in the Challenge will show the working of their methods (but this is not a prerequisite to acceptance of the workshop proposal, as opposed to the case of the data-driven challenge-based workshops). It is expected that the format of the workshop will be such that a tutorial and a panel discussion on the concept in question will be parts of the workshop.

** Workshop proposals for ACM Multimedia 2013 should include:

- Title and specific goals
- Specific topics to be addressed
- Relevance and significance of this workshop to the main conference
- A history of the workshop, if not being offered for the first time
- Estimated paper submission volume and paper acceptance rate
- Expected attendance
- Length – Full day or half day
- Indication if a journal special issue arrangement of the published workshop paper is in process
- A draft workshop call for papers with:
 - Names, affiliations, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of the workshop organizers, who should be experts in the related topics and preferably from multiple institutions
 - The paper selection process
 - A list of potential Program Committee members and their affiliations
 - Important dates

Workshop proposals should not exceed 3 pages and should be submitted to the Workshop Chairs (Vladimir Pavlovic  and Maja Pantic ).

** Important Dates Challenge-based Workshops:

Proposals Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013
Preliminary Notification: January 20, 2013
Challenge Data release: February 15, 2013
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 25, 2013
Camera-Ready Papers: August 1, 2013

** Important Dates Regular Workshops:

Proposals Submission Deadline: February 15, 2013
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 25, 2013
Camera-Ready Papers: August 1, 2013