Call for Grand Challenge Proposal
Overview
ACM Multimedia Asia is calling for proposals for Grand Challenges in 2025. Proposers with an innovative idea of a Multimedia Grand Challenge, should gather an organizational team with the capacity to carry out the organization of a challenge, and submit a proposal according to the instructions below. The purpose of the Multimedia Grand Challenge is to engage the multimedia research community by establishing well-defined and objectively judged challenge problems intended to exercise the state-of-the-art methods and inspire future research directions. The key criteria for Grand Challenges are that they should be useful, interesting, and their solution should involve a series of research tasks over a long period of time, with pointers towards longer-term research.
Proposal Format
A Multimedia Grand Challenge proposal should include:
1. Motivation: A brief description to explain why the challenge problem is important and relevant to the multimedia research community, industry, and society over the next 3-5 years or a longer horizon.
2. Task: A description of a specific set of research tasks or sub-tasks to be carried out towards tackling the challenge problem in the long run.
3. Area review: An outline of current state-of-the-art techniques and why this Grand Challenge would help accelerate research in this important area.
4. Datasets: Link to sites containing relevant datasets to be used for objective training and evaluation of the grand challenge tasks. Documentation on the datasets should be provided or made accessible.
5. Evaluation metric: A description of rigorously defined objective criteria and/or procedures on how the submissions will be evaluated or judged.
6. Commitment: A commitment to publish and maintain a website related to their specific Grand Challenge containing the information, datasets, and tasks for the Grand Challenge for at least the next 3 years.
7. Organizers: Contact information of at least two organizers who will be responsible for organizing, publicizing, reviewing and judging the Grand Challenge submissions as described in the proposal.
8. Submission: The grand challenge proposals should be emailed to the Grand Challenge Chairs for review.
Important Dates
Proposal Submission deadline: June 25, 2025
Proposal Notification of acceptance: July 9, 2025
Grand Challenge Paper Submission: October 4, 2025
Grand Challenge Camera-ready: October 24, 2025
Contact
For submissions and questions, please email the Workshop Co-Chairs:
• Yoko Yamakata (yamakata@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
• Yunshan Ma (ysma@smu.edu.sg)
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