The Challenges Of Tomorrow’s Multimedia As Seen Through The Eyes Of Google, Yahoo, Nokia And Others

Part of this year's ACM Multimedia conference, the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009 aims to collect information on the specific problems and issues companies like Google, Yahoo, Nokia, HP, Radvision and CeWe see arise on the multimedia horizon for the next 2-5 years. Researchers from around the world will be encouraged to submit working systems that significantly address the challenges defined by the companies cited above, in order to win the Grand Challenge competition (prizes to be defined). Deadline for submissions is June 15th. The six companies have put forward eight challenges so far, which all make for interesting reads. A list and brief summaries per challenge can be found after the jump.