Multimedia Grand Challenge 2012

The Multimedia Grand Challenge is a recurring event at the ACM Multimedia Conference series. During this event, delegates from various industries define a number of challenges that they consider of interest from both a business and scientific perspective, giving the multimedia research community an opportunity to solve relevant, interesting, and challenging questions in the multimedia industry´s two to five year horizon. Six industry partners participated in this year´s Grand Challenge program: Google Japan, HP, Huawei/3DLife, NTT Docomo, NHK, and Technicolor. The 2012 Grand Challenge awarded first- and second-place prizes as well as multimodal and finalist prizes.