Workshop on Multimedia Challenges, Opportunities and Research Directions

人类的交流和信息消费本质上是多模式的，涉及丰富的数据和各种模式的交互，如文本、声音、视觉、触觉等。多媒体领域负责发展理论基础、新方法和有效的系统设计，以整合异构模式的数据，以提取有用的信息，增强交互，并在不同的多媒体应用中提供最佳的用户体验。如今，先进的多媒体解决方案已广泛应用于社交媒体、虚拟/增强现实、分布式协作与通信、在线教育、医疗保健、科学发现等众多应用和平台中。现在，随着多媒体设备、流程和系统的爆炸性部署，多媒体研究的作用变得比以往任何时候都更加重要，影响着我们在推进最先进技术和解决社会和国家在全球通信、安全、环境可持续性、卫生保健、教育等领域面临的各种挑战的能力和前景。为了应对这些挑战，进一步推进多媒体领域的前沿，本项目旨在制定一个雄心勃勃的愿景和具体的战略行动计划，以指导未来十年多媒体领域的研究方向和规划所需的关键资源。该项目将组织为期两天的研讨会，邀请来自学术界、工业界和研究机构的主要研究人员和实践者一起集思广益，讨论和规划未来十年多媒体领域最重要的研究课题和方向。与会者将被要求对当前的技术状况进行评估，分享组织大规模协作多媒体研究的最佳实践，指出社区的弱点和缺乏解决方案和专业知识，并确定需要社区和资助机构进一步努力和投资的优先主题和方向。会议还将讨论其他重要议题，如专题小组发展、校企互动、企业翻译、跨学科合作和国际合作。讲习班的成果将包括一份报告，其中综合了所有与会者的投入和讲习班的结论。报告和与会者分享的意见将在讲习班网站上供公众查阅。研讨会报告将通过ACM和IEEE多媒体组以及其他专业团体的邮件列表传播，并将纳入ACM数字图书馆存档和开放获取。

Human communication and information consumption is multimodal by nature, involving rich data and interaction of various modalities such as text, sound, vision, touch, and more. The field of multimedia has been responsible for developing theoretical foundations, novel methodologies, and effective system designs for integrating data of heterogeneous modalities to extract useful information, enhance interaction, and deliver optimal user experiences in different multimedia applications. Today the use of advanced multimedia solutions is pervasive in myriad applications and platforms such as social media, virtual/augmented reality, distributive collaboration and communication, online education, health care, scientific discovery, and many others. Now with the explosive deployment of multimedia devices, processes, and systems, the role of multimedia research has become even more important than ever, influencing our abilities and prospects in advancing state-of-the-art technologies and solving real-world problems underlying various challenges facing the society and the nation in areas like global communication, security, environmental sustainability, health care, education, etc. To respond to these challenges and further advance the frontiers of the field of multimedia, this project aims to develop an ambitious vision and concrete strategic action plans to guide the research directions and plan the critical resources needed in the multimedia field in the next ten years. The project will organize a two-day workshop, in which invited leading researchers and practitioners from academics, industry, and research institutes will work together to brainstorm, discuss, and plan the most important research topics and directions for the multimedia field in the next ten years. Participants will be asked to provide assessment of the state of the art today, share best practices of organizing large-scale collaborative multimedia research, point out weakness and missing solutions and expertise in the community, and identify priority topics and directions that require further efforts and investment by the community and the funding agencies. Other important topics such as taskforce development, university-industry interaction, entrepreneurial translation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and international collaboration will also be discussed. The outcome of the workshop will include a report that integrates input from all participants and conclusions from the workshop. The report and the input shared by the participants will be available for public access on the workshop web site. The workshop report will be disseminated through the mailing lists of the multimedia groups of ACM and IEEE and other professional communities, and will be included in the ACM Digital Library for archival and open access.