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<div class="moz-forward-container"><b>CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND
CHALLENGES<o:p></o:p></b>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 venue 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 propose, define, and
address the scientific Grand Challenges in our field during
the next five years. 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.
Challenge tasks involving analysis, synthesis, and interaction
are all feasible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We invite organizers from various fields
related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand
Challenge events at ICMI 2023. We are looking for exciting and
stimulating challenges including but not limited to the
following categories:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>Dataset-driven
challenge</b>. 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.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>System-driven
challenge</b>. 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.<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prospective organizers should submit a
five-page maximum proposal containing the following
information:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. Title<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Abstract appropriate for possible Web
promotion of the Challenge<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. Distinctive topics to be addressed
and specific goals<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. Detailed description of the Challenge
and its relevance to multimodal interaction<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5. Length (full day or half day)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6. Plan for soliciting participation and
list of potential participants<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7. Description of how submissions to the
challenge will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8. Proposed schedule for releasing
datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and
receiving submissions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">9. Short biography of the organizers
(preferably from multiple institutions)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10. Funding source (if any) that supports
or could support the challenge organization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11. Draft call for papers: affiliations and
email address of the organizers; summary of the Grand
Challenge; list of potential Technical Program Committee
members and their affiliations, important dates<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 previous ICMI grand 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The ICMI conference organizers will offer
support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and
equipment to run the challenge workshop, coffee breaks
synchronized with the main track, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Important Dates and Contact Details</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Proposals due: February 3, 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Proposal notification: February 10, 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paper camera-ready: August 13, 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Grand challenge date: October 9 or 14, 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI
2023 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Sean Andrist and
Fabien Ringeval:
<a href="mailto:icmi2023-grand-challenge-chairs@acm.org"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">icmi2023-grand-challenge-chairs@acm.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Prospective organizers are also encouraged
to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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