Connectionists: IEEE BigMM 2020, New Delhi, India: Call for Grand Challenge Proposals (Deadline: 29 February)

[MIDAS Lab IIIT Delhi]

Dear Colleagues

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 Submission Deadline: 29 February 2020 PST

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You may consider submitting your Grand Challenge proposals to the IEEE
BigMM 2020.

Kindly share the CfGCP with others who may wish to submit Grand Challenge
proposals to IEEE BigMM 2020, which will be held at Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU), New Delhi, in collaboration with Indraprastha Institute
of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi).

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Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call.

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Further information:

Webpage:
http://bigmm2020.org/index.php/calls-for-submission/grand-challenge-proposals


The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM), jointly
sponsored by the IEEE-TCMC (Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing)
and IEEE-TCSEM (Technical Committee on Semantic Computing), is the world's
premier forum of leading scholars in the highly active multimedia big data
research, development, and applications. The sixth BigMM conference is
jointly hosted by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Indraprastha
Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), will be held in
JNU, New Delhi from September 24 to 26 in 2020.


The IEEE BigMM’20 organizing committee is inviting proposals for the
Multimedia Grand Challenge which is to be held in conjunction with the
conference. The objective of the Challenge is to attract the multimedia
research community by proposing well defined and objectively judged
challenge problems aim toward putting into practice and evaluate the
state-of-the-art research which in turn can potentially lead to future
research directions. The major criteria of the Challenge is that proposed
problems should be useful and of interest to the community, and should
involve a series of research tasks over a long period of time, with pointer
toward long-term research.


Grand Challenge proposals should be submitted via email to the workshop
co-chairs:

Rameshwar Pratap (IIT Mandi)  rameshwar at iitmandi.ac.in

Amit Sangroya (TCS Research & Innovation) amit.sangroya at tcs.com


A Multimedia Grand Challenge proposal should include:

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   A brief description explaining why the challenge problem is important
   and relevant to the multimedia research community, industry, society over
   the span of the next 3-5 years.
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   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.
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   An outline of the current state-of-the-art techniques and a description
   of why this Grand Challenge would help in accelerating or providing new
   research directions in the multimedia research community.
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    Pointer to the relevant datasets to be used for objective training and
   evaluation of the grand challenge tasks. Clear and complete documentation
   on the datasets should be provided.
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   A description of clearly and rigorously defined evaluation metrics
   and/or procedures on how the submissions will be evaluated.
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   Work with IEEE BigMM’20 organizers to publicize the Grand Challenge
   tasks to researchers for participation.
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   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.
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   It is highly recommended to publish and maintain a website related to
   their specific Grand Challenge containing the information, datasets, tasks
   for the Grand Challenge at least the next 3 years.
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   Note that although we ask organizers to express a multi-year commitment
   to their Grand Challenge, the Challenge will still undergo a new review
   each year. Priority will be given to Grand Challenges which have been
   successful in the past and are clearly contributing to continuity.

Deadlines: We are accepting the Multimedia Grand Challenge Proposals in the
following two rounds.

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   Proposal submission: 29 February 2020
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   Proposal notification: 15 March 2020


You may check more details at http://bigmm2020.org,
https://twitter.com/ieeebigmm, and https://www.facebook.com/ieeebigmm.


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