Multimedia Grand Challenge 2011

What problems do Yahoo, HP, Nokia, Technicolor, 3DLife and other companies see in the future of multimedia? The Multimedia Grand Challenge is a set of problems from 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.

2011 Challenges are the following:

• HP Challenge: High Impact Visual Communication
• Technicolor Challenge: Precise Event Recognition and Description from Video Excerpts
• Nokia Challenge: Visual Landmark Recognition
• Yahoo! Video Challenge: Robust Automatic Segmentation of Video According to Narrative Themes
• Yahoo! Image Challenge: Novel Image Understanding
• 3Dlife Challenge: Realistic Interaction in Online Virtual Environments

Winners of the competition will be announced at the ACM Multimedia Conference 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Multimedia Grand Challenge 2010

Submissions for the ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge 2010 must significantly address one of the industry challenges posted on the Grand Challenge web site and depict working, presentable systems or demos.

The top submissions will be presented in a special event during the ACM Multimedia 2010 conference in Florence, Italy. Based on the presentation, winners will be selected for Grand Challenge awards.

2010 challenges are the following:

• Google challenge: Robust, As-Accurate-As-Human Genre Classification for Video
• Google challenge: Indexing and Fast Interactive Searching in Personal Diaries
• Radvision challenge: Video Conferencing To Surpass “In-Person” Meeting Experience
• Radvision challenge: Real-time Data Collaboration Adaptation for Multi-Device Video Conferencing
• HP challenge: High Impact Visual Communication
• Nokia challenge: Where was this Photo Taken, and How?
• Yahoo! challenge: Novel Image Understanding
• Yahoo! challenge: Robust Automatic Segmentation of Video According to Narrative Themes

WIAMIS 2010

The preliminary program of the 11th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2010) is now available here and the Advanced System Technology labs of STMicroelectronics had 4 papers accepted for presentation:

• "Constant quality variable bit-rate control for SVC" by Tea Anselmo and Daniele Alfonso.
• "Error Concealment of Intra Coded Video Frames" by Riccardo Bernardini, Luca Celetto, Gianluca Gennari, Matteo Petrani and Roberto Rinaldo.
• "H.264/AVC Stereo Video Compression Benchmarking" by Subarna Tripathi, Emiliano Piccinelli and Davide Aliprandi.
• "Segment-Based Depth Maps Extraction from Stereo Video Content" by Alberto La Martina, Davide Aliprandi and Emiliano Piccinelli

See you in Desenzano del Garda, Italy.

IDF 2009

The Intel Developer Forum has been held in San Francisco between September 22 and 24, 2009. All the Keynote and Briefing presentations are available at the IDF Pressroom. Here is the full program.

Day 1

• Keynote: Paul Otellini - Building a Continuum of Computing
• Keynote: Sean Maloney - Intel® Architecture Innovates and Integrates
• Briefing: Steve Smith - Intel Roadmap Overview
• Briefing: Mark Bohr - 22 nm SRAM Announcement

Day 2

• Keynote: Dadi Perlmutter - Mobile Computing: The Definition of Cool
• Keynote: Renee James - Developing for the Continuum of Intel Platforms
• Briefing: Mooly Eden - Revolutionary, Intelligent Intel® Core™ i7 Processors - Coming Soon to a Laptop Near You

Day 3

• Keynote: Eric Kim - The Architecture of CE Innovation
• Keynote: Justin Rattner - Convergence is So Yesterday: The Future of Television

3D Media Workshop

The 3D Media Workshop will be held at Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin between 15 and 16 October 2009.

It will provide an international forum to discuss and give guidance to future research, standardisation and development activities of 3D, bringing together production and post production companies, multimedia content providers, broadcast operators, regulators, manufacturers, and R&D organizations.

Topics to be presented and discussed cover the complete chain of 3D production to 3D displays for 3D cinema, (mobile) 3DTV, 3D games, and other immersive applications around 3D content.

The Workshop programme is now online.

Fully Networked Car workshop 2010

ITU, ISO and IEC are organizing the 5th edition of The Fully Networked Car workshop (FNC-2010), which focuses on information and communication technologies (ICT) in motor vehicles, bringing together specialists in the field of ICT in cars, from top decision makers to engineers, designers, planners, government officials and regulators.

Information relating to the workshop is available on the ITU-T website.

Multimedia Grand Challenge

What problems do Google, Yahoo, HP, Radvision, CeWe, Nokia 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 is initially presented as part of ACM Multimedia 2009. Researchers will be encouraged to submit working systems in response to the challenge to win the Grand Challenge competition!

Can you solve these problems?

Is 3D the future for sports TV?

The upcoming Sports Broadcast Europe conference will feature key members of the team involved in the groundbreaking Six Nations Rugby 3D broadcast project earlier this year.

How will 3D make it to the home? What are the technical challenges now and in the future? What are the creative differences compared to 2D? Don't miss this case study, with Duncan Humphreys, director of Can Communicate and Andy Millns, director of Ignition.

Source: TVB Europe.

ICIP 2009 CfP

Call For Papers/Special Sessions/Tutorials
2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
CAIRO, EGYPT
November 7-11, 2009

www.icip2009.org

Important Deadlines:
Special Session Proposals Due: December 15, 2008
Tutorial Proposals Due: January 9, 2009
Submission of Papers: January 30, 2009