Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009

As of today, eight challenges from six companies (HP, Google, CeWe, Yahoo!, Radvision, and Nokia) have been posted on http://www.multimediagrandchallenge.com/. More information about the Multimedia Grand Challenge can be found here, however, mainly driven by the major companies as listed above:

"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 eight challenges are listed below (in alphabetic order) and for details just follow the link. An overview can be also found at TechCrunch.

• CeWe Challenge: The Next Generation of Tangible Multimedia Products
• Google Challenge: Robust, As-Accurate-As-Human Genre Classification for Video
• HP Challenge: Robust Identification of Informative Multimedia Content in Web Pages
• Nokia Challenge: Where was this Photo Taken, and How?
• Radvision Challenge: Video Conferencing To Surpass “In-Person” Meeting Experience
• Radvision Challenge: Real-time Data Collaboration Adaptation for Multi-Device Video Conferencing
• Yahoo! Challenge: Robust Automatic Segmentation of Video According to Narrative Themes
• Yahoo! Challenge: Robust Clustering Guided by User Intent in Image Search