Grand Challenge Proposal

ICME 2027 is inviting proposals for its Grand Challenge (GC) program. Please see the following guidelines for this year’s Grand Challenge submission:

• GC organizers cannot participate as competitors in the GC they are organizing.
• GC organizers should provide a dataset that is open for competition; in particular, it has to include: i) a training set with ground truth that is available to all participants and ii) a testing set that is also available to participants but whose ground truth is hidden. GC organizers are responsible for evaluating all submitted models using the testing set (plus, optionally, a second testing set that is hidden to the participants).
• Once a proposal has been accepted, the Grand Challenge (GC) organizers should establish a dedicated website/webpage to serve as the main portal for the challenge. Its URL will be embedded into the main ICME 2027 website.
• GC organizers should coordinate reviews of GC papers that describe the submitted models. Submitted GC papers can optionally have a missing results section, which will be completed after GC organizers have completed their evaluations.
• GC organizers should organize a 2-hour GC session to be included in the ICME 2027 program, which should include the presentations of the models submitted to the challenge, followed by a panel or open discussion. Winners of competitions should be announced during the GC sessions.
• Participants to the Grand Challenge are encouraged to submit short papers (up to 6 pages) that, in case of acceptance, will be published in the conference workshop proceedings.