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IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2017
</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Beijing, China, September 17-20, 2017</span><br class="">
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Call for Grand Challenge Proposals</b><br class=""></font>
<br class="">The Grand Challenges present a set of problems aimed at engaging the image processing research community into a competition of solving these interesting and challenging problems. Proposals for Grand Challenges are sought in all areas of imaging, image and video processing, and computer vision. We are particularly interested in proposals that represent the real-world challenges in industry applications. Proposers are encouraged to find an industry partner who can collaborate on and sponsor the proposed Challenge, though a sponsorship is not required for submitting a proposal. <br class="">
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Prospective proposers of Grand Challenges should submit proposals with the following information:<ul class=""><li class="">Definition of the Challenge</li><li class="">Significance and real-world value of the Challenge</li><li class="">Rules for participation</li><li class="">Criteria of judging a submission</li><li class="">Data sets provided, if any</li><li class="">Team that will run the Challenge</li><li class="">Awards proposed, if any</li><li class="">Dates (e.g., submission deadline, data available, and winner announcement)</li><li class="">Sponsorship, if any</li></ul><div class=""><span class=""><span class=""><u class="">Submission:</u></span></span></div>
<br class="">All proposals shall be submitted via email to <a href="mailto:GC2017-submission@gmail.com" class="">GC2017-submission@gmail.com</a>. For inquiries regarding Grand Challenges, please send emails to <a href="mailto:GC2017-inquiry@gmail.com" class="">GC2017-inquiry@gmail.com</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><u class=""><i class="">
Dates:</i></u><br class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Deadline for proposal submission: <span class="redfont" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Jan 15, 2017</b></span></li><li class="">Announcement of acceptance: <span class="redfont" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Jan 31, 2017</b></span></li></ul><div class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">PDF of the Call for Grand Challenge Proposals </span></b><a href="http://2017.ieeeicip.org/doc/ICIP2017-Call-for-Grand-Challenges-v3.pdf" class="">here</a></div><div class=""><font color="#ff0000" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Happy new year!!!</b></span></div><ul class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></ul></div></div><font size="4" class="">Follow ICIP 2017 on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/IEEE-ICIP-IEEE-International-Conference-on-Image-Processing-888579217937155/" class="">Facebook</a> - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8549988" class="">LinkedIn</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/IEEE_ICIP" class="">Twitter</a> </font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><img alt="14372292_934447193350357_6611193125480558468_o.jpg" apple-inline="yes" id="CD4044BD-497E-4238-9807-04D38EAEF23E" class="" src="cid:369EE279-FA10-4622-A7C2-C23BBD849EBC@sic.univ-poitiers.fr"></div></div></div></div></body></html>