<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi All,<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><br></div><div>[Apologies for multiple postings]<br></div><div><br></div><div>***************************************************************************<br></div><div>24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2022</div><div>Bangalore, India, 7 - 11 Nov 2022</div><div><a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2022/" target="_blank">https://icmi.acm.org/2022/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2022/grand-challenges/" target="_blank">https://icmi.acm.org/2022/grand-challenges/</a><br></div><div>***************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div><b>Call for grand challenge</b></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Grand challenge proposals due </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">January 31, 2022</span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Proposal notification of acceptance </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">February 12, 2022 </span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Grand challenge paper camera-ready </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">August 17, 2022</span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Grand challenge date </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">7-11 November 2022</span><br></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify;background-color:transparent;font-size:13px">Teams are encouraged to submit proposals for one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges.</span><br></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">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 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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Papers submitted to the challenge will be indexed in the main proceedings of the conference.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">The grand challenge sessions are still to be confirmed. 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:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;list-style-position:initial;line-height:26px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Dataset-driven challenge. </span>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.</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Use-case challenge. </span>This challenge will provide an interactive problem system (e.g. dialogue-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.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:</p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;list-style-position:inside;line-height:26px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Title</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">A detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Length (full-day or half-day)</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Plan for soliciting participation and list of potential participants</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Description of how submissions (challenge’s submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">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.</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">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, and important dates</li></ol><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan. A challenge with the dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure its representatively 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. Grand challenge organizers are not eligible to participate in the challenge that they are organizing.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Important Dates and Contact Details</span></p><table width="332" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td width="159" style="box-sizing:border-box">Proposals due</td><td width="173" style="box-sizing:border-box">January 31, 2022</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td width="159" style="box-sizing:border-box">Proposal notification</td><td width="173" style="box-sizing:border-box">February 12, 2022</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td width="159" style="box-sizing:border-box">Paper camera-ready</td><td width="173" style="box-sizing:border-box">August 17, 2022</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td width="159" style="box-sizing:border-box">Grand challenge date</td><td width="173" style="box-sizing:border-box">November 7 or 11, 2022</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Proposals should be emailed to ICMI 2022 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs Dr. Subhramanyam Murala and Dr. Shyam Rajagopalan (<a href="mailto:icmi2022-challenge-chairs@acm.org" style="color:rgb(46,163,242);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">icmi2022-challenge-chairs@acm.org</a>). Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Proposals are due by Jan 31, 2022. Notifications will be sent on February 12, 2022.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;bac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