<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:24pt 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:15pt;color:rgb(0,51,123)">ICMI2020: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">***************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">ICMI 2020: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL"><a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=CfC" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=CfC</span></a></span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="NL" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">***************************************</span><span lang="NL"><br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL">Dear all,</span><span lang="NL" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Challenge papers will be indexed in the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> main</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> proceedings of ICMI.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">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:</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11pt 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Dataset-driven challenge</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">: </span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">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.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Use-case challenge</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">: </span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">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.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Health challenge</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">: </span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">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.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 11pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Policy challenge</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">: </span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Legal, ethical, and privacy issues of Multimodal Interaction systems in the age of AI. The challenge could revolve around opinion papers, panels, discussions, etc.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11pt 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11pt 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Title</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Length (full day or half day)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Plan for soliciting participation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Description of how submissions (challenge’s submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 11pt;color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt">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</span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Important Dates and Contact Details</span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:12pt"><td valign="top" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;padding:0.75pt;height:12pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Proposals due</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;height:12pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">January 13, 2020</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td valign="top" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;padding:0.75pt;height:12pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Proposal notification</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;height:12pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">February 3, 2020</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td valign="top" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;padding:0.75pt;height:12pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Paper camera-ready</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;height:12pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">August 17, 2020</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2020 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Dr. Hayley Hung and Dr. Laura Cabrera-Quiros via <a href="mailto:grandchallenge.ICMI20@gmail.com" target="_blank">grandchallenge.ICMI20@gmail.com</a>. Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Proposals are due by January 13, 2020. Notifications will be sent on February 3, 2020.</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL">Regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="NL">Leimin</span></p><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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