The Multimedia Grand Challenge Program
$3000 Prizes Sponsored by Google, HP Labs, Nokia and Yahoo!
Click here for more details: http://multimediagrandchallenge.com
Call for Submissions and Participation (Expired)
ACM MM2009 Call for Submissions and Participation can be found HERE.
Camera-ready Submission Instruction (Expired)
All ACM sponsored proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library as well as prepared for printed publication. All papers for the conference must be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to ACM specifications. Your electronic submission is due on or before the morning of July 27th (11:00 AM EST, NY time). Please submit as early as possible if you are able to do so. For more details about the camera-ready paper instruction, please refer to the following site: http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/mm.htm
Program
The Multimedia Grand Challenge will be presented in a dynamic, American-Idol style event on Wednesday Oct 21, 2009, 16:30-18:00; at the Jewel Room.
14 exciting responses to challenges have been accepted and will be presented at the session. This accepted responses are listed below.
David Ayman Shamma of Yahoo! Research will be the host / master of ceremony (read: session chair). There will be a panel of judges that will react and respond to the presented challenge responses.
The session will begin with a quick overview of the challenges. Then, each response will be presented in exactly three minutes. There will be a timer, and when the timer goes off, the presenter will be cut off. After three minutes, the panel and crowd will have exactly 2 minutes to ask additional questions.
Winners will chosen by the judges and the crowd (details to be posted), and will be announced at the banquet. There will be at least one Grand Challenge winner for a prize of $1500. Other stand-out presentations may be awarded additional prizes (e.g., "most entertaining presentation" or "best response to the challenge from corporate X").
The goal of the session is to engage and entertain the conference attendees. We hope to see you there!
Accepted MMGC responses:
- Towards Google Challenge: Combining Contextual and Social Information for Web Video Categorization. Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo.
- TubeFiler an Automatic Web Video Categorizer. Damian Borth, Jorn Hees, Markus Koch, Adrian Ulges, Christian Schulze, Thomas Breuel, Roberto Paredes
- Google Challenge: an Incremental-Learning Web Video Categorization Algorithm on Robust Semantic Feature Space. Yicheng Song, Xu Zhang, Juan Cao, Yong-Dong Zhang, Jintao Li.
- Joke-o-mat: Browsing Sitcoms Punchline by Punchline. Gerald Friedland, Luke Gottlieb, Adam Janin.
- Dynamic presentation adaptation based on user intent classification. Christoph Kofler, Mathias Lux.
- VoxaleadNews: Robust Automatic Segmentation of Video into Browsable Content. Julien Law-To, Gregory Grefenstette, Jean-Luc Garvain.
- Canonical Image Selection and Efficient Image Graph Construction for Large-Scale Flickr Photos. Winston Hsu, Liang-Chi Hsieh.
- Extracting Informative Images from Web News Pages via Imbalanced Classification. Wei Gong, Hangzai Luo, Jianping Fan.
- Identifying Auxiliary Web Images Using Combination of Analyses. Tewson Seeoun, Choochart Haruechaiyasek, Toshiaki Kondo.
- FreeEye - Intuitive Summarisation of Photo Collections. Kan Ren, Risto Sarvas, Janko Calic.
- Automatic Summarization of Travel Photos Using Near-Duplication Detection and Feature Filtering. Wei-Ta Chu, Chia-Hung Lin.
- Personal Photo Album Summarization. Pinaki Sinha, Hamed Pirsiavash, Ramesh Jain.
- Sports Wizard. Ming-Chun Tien, Yin-Tze Lin, Ja-Ling Wu.
- HugMe: Synchronous Haptic Teleconferencing. Jongeun Cha, Mohamad Eid, Ahmad Barghout, Abu Saleh Md. Mahfujur Tahman, Abdulmotaleb Ei Saddik.
See you in Beijing!
Contact
For details, questions, or to participate as a corporate partner, email:
Mor Naaman: [firstname] –at– scils.rutgers.edu.
New industry challenges are welcome until the end of February.
Organizers:
Grand Challenge Co-chairs
Mor Naaman, Rutgers University ([firstname] –at– scils.rutgers.edu)
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore
Academic Steering Committee:
David Ayman Shamma, Yahoo! Research, USA
Susanne Boll, Oldenburg University, Germany
Noel E O’Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Industrial Partners:
CeWe-Sabine Thieme-[first].[last] -at- cewecolor.de
Nokia-Timo Pylvanainen-[first].[last] -at- nokia.com
Google-Jay Yagnik-jyagnik -at- [company].com
Yahoo-Kaushal Kurapati-kaushalk -at- [company]-inc.com
Radvision-Sagee Ben Zeddef-[firstname] -at- radvision.com
HP-Qian Lin-[first].[last] -at- hp.com |