Connectionists: ACM Multimedia 2019: Call for Participation in Grand Challenges

[Bogdan Ionescu]

ACM Multimedia is the premier international conference in the area of
multimedia within the field of computer science. Multimedia research
focuses on integration of the multiple perspectives offered by
different digital modalities including images, text, video, music,
sensor data, spoken audio. The conference covers four themes: Engaging
users with multimedia, Multimedia experience, Multimedia systems and
Understanding multimedia content.

We are calling for participation in this year’s Multimedia Grand
Challenges. The purpose of the challenges 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.

AI Meets Beauty Perfect Corp. Half Million Beauty Product Image
Recognition Challenge
https://challenge2019.perfectcorp.com
Results submission: 13 June 2019
Beauty and personal care product recognition, and more, on a challenge
large-scale image data set.

BioMedia: Multimedia in Medicine
https://github.com/kelkalot/biomedia-2019
Results submission: 20 June 2019
Detect and classify abnormalities in gastrointestinal (GI) tract
images and/or automatically generate medical reports from GI tract
videos.

iQIYI Celebrity Video Identification Challenge
http://challenge.ai.iqiyi.com/detail?raceId=5c767dc41a6fa0ccf53922e7
Results submission: 10 June 2019
Video dataset for multi-model person identification: For each identity
in the training set, find all the video clips of the same identity in
the test set.

Live Video Streaming
https://www.aitrans.online/MMGC/
Results submission: 10 June 2019
Develop algorithms for bitrate control and latency control at the
client to maximum the quality of experience (QoE) while keeping the
playback latency to within a given threshold.

Relation Understanding in Videos
http://lms.comp.nus.edu.sg/research/video-relation-challenge/mm19-gdc/
Results submission: 22 June 2019
For a large-scale dataset of user-generated video, choose from three
tasks: video object detection, action detection and visual relation
detection.

Social Media Prediction
http://smp-challenge.com/
Results submission: 5 June 2019
Temporal Popularity Prediction, predict future clicks of new social
media posts before they are posted in social feeds.

Content-based video relevance prediction: Hulu
https://github.com/cbvrp-acmmm-2019/cbvrp-acmmm-2019
Results submission: 1 July 2019
Solve the problem of cold start recommendation for TV shows and/or
movies using viewer records, metadata, features.


ACM Multimedia 2019 will be held 21 - 25 October 2019, Nice, France
For a full list of important dates, please refer to:
https://www.acmmm.org/2019/important-dates


On behalf of the Publicity Chairs,

Prof. Bogdan IONESCU
ETTI - University Politehnica of Bucharest
http://campus.pub.ro/lab7/bionescu/