Call for Grand Challenge

IEEE ICME 2025 is inviting proposals for its Grand Challenge (GC) program. Please see the following guidelines for this year’s grand challenge submission:

  1. GC organizers cannot participate as competitors in the GC they are organizing.
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. GC organizers should organize a 2-hour GC session to be included in the ICME’25 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.
  5. Participants to the Grand Challenge are encouraged to submit short papers (up to 4 pages) that, in case of acceptance, will be published in the conference workshop proceedings.

Requirements

Grand Challenge Proposals should follow the requirements below:

1. Grand Challenge title

2. Grand Challenge description (maximum 500 words)

3. Evaluation criteria (maximum 500 words)

4. Submission guidelines, including deadline

5. Organizers’ contacts and short bio

6. Additional information (e.g., sponsors and awards)

Submission

Please submit the proposals in PDF format to grandchallenges@2025.ieeeicme.org

Important Dates

Grand Challenges proposal submission deadline 02-Dec-2024. All submissions are due 11:59PM Pacific time.

Proposal Acceptance Notification 20-December-2025.