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Monday, January 11, 2021 by Chris Wellekens

3-3-32 (2021-10-18) Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges @ ICMI2021, Montreal, Canada
  
Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
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ICMI 2021: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
http://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=challenges
18-22 Oct 2021, Montreal, Canada
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We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges.

The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum 
for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, 
and system development. 
Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human 
communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes.
 In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics and physiological 
signal processing, for example, the availability of datasets and common tasks have led to great progress.
We invite the ICMI community to collectively define and tackle the scientific Grand Challenges in our domain for the next 5 years.
ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work. 
Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible.

Challenge papers will be indexed in the main proceedings of ICMI.

We invite organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand Challenge events. 
We are looking for exciting and stimulating challenges including but not limited to the following categories:

- Dataset-driven challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of the complexities 
of current and future multimodal problems, and one or more multimodal 
tasks whose performance can be objectively measured and compared in rigorous conditions. 
Participants in the Challenge will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses.
- Use-case challenge: This challenge will provide an interactive problem system (e.g. dialog-based or non-verbal-based) 
  and the associated resources, which can allow people to participate through the integration 
  of specific modules or alternative full systems. Proposers should also establish systematic evaluation procedures.
- Health challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary 
  of a health related task, whose analysis, diagnosis, treatment or prevention can be aided by Multimodal 
  Interactions. The challenge should focus on exploring the benefits of multimodal (audio, visual, physiological, etc) solutions for the stated task.
- Policy challenge: Legal, ethical, and privacy issues of Multimodal Interaction systems in the age of AI. 
  The challenge could revolve around opinion papers, panels, discussions, etc.

Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:

1.Title
2.Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge
3.Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals
4.Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction
5.Length (full day or half day)
6.Plan for soliciting participation
7.Description of how submissions (challenge?s submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers
8.Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions
9.Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)
10.Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization
11.Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the organisers; 
        summary of the Grand Challenge; 
        list of potential Technical Program Committee members 
        and their affiliations, important dates

Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan. 
A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure 
its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; 
an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case. 
Continuation of or variants on the 2019 challenges are welcome, 
though we ask for submissions of this form to highlight the number 
of participants that attended during the previous year and describe 
what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year.

The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics, 
which includes rooms and equipment to run the Workshop, 
coffee breaks can be offered if synchronised with the main conference.

Important Dates and Contact Details

Proposals due: January 27, 2021
Proposal notification: February 3, 2021
Paper camera-ready: August 17, 2021
Grand challenge date: October 18 or 22, 2021


Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2021 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, 
Jean-Marc Odobez and Dirk Heylen via icmi2021-challenge-chairs@acm.org. 
Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. 
Proposals are due by January 27, 2021. Notifications will be sent on February 3, 2021.
 







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