[iva] Call for Proposal - Grand Challenge - International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2024

[Ronald Böck, Dr.-Ing. habil.]

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Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges - ICMI 2024

Teams are encouraged to submit proposals for one or more ICMI Multimodal 
Grand Challenges.

The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the 
world's leading platform for multidisciplinary research on multimodal 
human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system 
development. Identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes is 
necessary for developing systems that can reliably interpret human-human 
communication or respond to human input. The availability of datasets 
and common goals has led to significant development in domains such as 
computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-)linguistics, 
and physiological signal processing, for example. We invite the ICMI 
community to define and address the scientific Grand Challenges in our 
field, showing perspectives during the next five years as a group. The 
goal of the ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges is to elicit fresh ideas 
from the ICMI community and to generate momentum for future 
collaborative efforts. Tasks like analysis, synthesis, and interaction 
are all feasible.

Papers submitted to the challenge (of course, being reviewed and 
accepted) will be indexed in the main proceedings of the conference.

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, non-verbal-based, or 
multimodal-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.

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. Datasets should
    be made available after the end of the challenge as well.
 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 2023 
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. Grand challenge organizers are not eligible to participate in the 
challenge that they are organizing.

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 or other related events 
(e.g., workshops or tutorials).

*Important Dates and Contact Details*

Proposals due

	

Feb 5, 2024

Proposal notification

	

Feb 16, 2024

Paper camera-ready

	

Sep 6, 2024

Grand challenge date

	

Nov 4, 2024

Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2024 Multimodal Grand Challenge 
Chairs, Dr. Ronald Böck (Genie Enterprise) and Dr. Dinesh Babu JAYAGOPI 
(IIIT Bangalore), using icmi2024-challenge-chairs at acm.org 
<mailto:icmi2024-challenge-chairs at acm.org>.Prospective organizers are 
also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions.



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*PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Ronald Böck*
Head of Research
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