For the first time in 2009, the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and the Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction will be held jointly. We are writing to invite you to become a 2009 corporate sponsor for this important academic conference. ICMI-MLMI is a truly international conference, with previous venues in Canada, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Next year we will be proudly hosting this important meeting in Boston, hopefully with your help!
Multimodal interface is a challenging and important field that brings together
top quality work on computer vision, speech recognition, gesture recognition,
touch interfaces, biometrics, learning, and cognitive modeling. A
particular attraction of the multimodal interface field is that our work
combines these disparate tools together into working systems. Our
attendees are not only world-class theoreticians, they also have solid
infrastructure and architecture skills. Corporate Sponsorship will allow
your company to be a visible member of this talented, interdisciplinary
community.
Multimodal interface is also about the marriage of novel interface, sensing, and
actuation hardware with cutting-edge software. Our attendees are always
interested in new tools and better solutions. Corporate Sponsorship is an
important opportunity to connect with this broad community of trend setters in a
single location.
Our sponsorship options are explained on the following pages, but do not
hesitate to contact the Sponsorship Chair at sponsorship-icmi2009@acm.org if
you have any questions.
Please consider participating in ICMI-MLMI 2009 as corporate sponsors, and help us make this a great meeting!
ICMI-MLMI Sponsorship Chair
Hervé Bourlard, Idiap Research Institut
herve.bourlard@idiap.ch
ICMI-MLMI 2009 General
Co-Chairs
James Crowley, INRIA
Yuri Ivanov, MERL
The International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and
Workshop on Machine Learning for Multi-modal Interaction
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Gift Level |
Recognition |
Choice of Benefits |
| $10,000 |
Fully Multimodal Sponsor |
Exhibit
and Host and
Promote
plus 3 free registrations,
plus prominent recognition in print and electronic media, plus special recognition during opening and closing ceremonies. |
| $5,000 | Bimodal Sponsor |
Exhibit
and
Host or Exhibit and Promote or Host and Promote plus 2 free registrations, plus prominent recognition in print and electronic media, |
| $2,500 | Unimodal Sponsor |
Exhibit or Promote or Host plus 1 free registration, plus recognition in print and electronic media |
| Up to $2,500 | Friend of ICMI-MLMI | Recognition in print media. |
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Modality |
Description |
|
Exhibit |
10 square meters of exhibit space in the conference lobby,
plus one free registration |
|
Promote |
Insert promotional items into the attendee tote bag, or provide name tag lanyards. |
|
Host |
Naming rights for a social gathering or shuttle service at the conference, an Outstanding Paper or Outstanding Student Paper Awards. |
Naming Rights are available for the Outstanding Paper or Outstanding Student Paper prizes. Outstanding Paper Prize sponsorship confers a naming right only: the prize recipients will be chosen by an unbiased committee chosen by the conference organizers. Sponsorship of Outstanding Paper Sponsors will be recognized during the Prize Ceremony during the conference.
Unimodal, Bimodal, and Multimodal Sponsorship Grades
- Sponsors employing a single mode will be recognized as a "Unimodal Sponsor".
- Those employing two modes, as a "Bimodal Sponsor".
- Finally, a sponsor employing three or more modes will be recognized as a "Fully Multimodal Sponsor".
- Outstanding Paper Prize Sponsorship counts as a single mode.
- Donors contributing up to $2,500 will be recognized as Friends of the conference in print media.
Naming Opportunities
Social Events that may be sponsored, available on a first come first served basis, include the Conference Banquet, Welcome Reception, Cocktail Reception, Committee Dinner, and Volunteer Dinner.
Bank Information
All the amounts listed above are US Dollars. All checks should be made out to "ACM/ICMI-MLMI 2009". Please send donations to:
ICMI-MLMI 2009 Treasurer
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
201 Broadway, 8 Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139
Attendance
Since this is first year ICMI and MLMI will be held jointly we are expecting 150 attendees.
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2008 in Chiana Crete: 114
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2007 in Nagoya, Japan: 145
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2006 in Bannf, BC: 87
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2005 in Trento, Italy: 102
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2004 in State College, PA: 127
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2003 in Vancouver, BC: 170
Questions?
Please do not hesitate to contact Hervé Bourlard, the ICMI-MLMI sponsorship chair (sponsorship-icmi2009@acm.org) if you have any questions about sponsorship.
Recent Outstanding Paper Awards
CMI 2008, Chania, Crete
Context-based Recognition during Human Interactions: Automatic Feature Selection and Encoding Dictionary
Louis-Philippe Morency, Iwan de Kok, Jonathan Gratch
Outstanding Student Papers:
Crossmodal Congruence: The Look, Feel and Sound of Touchscreen Widgets
Eve Hoggan, Topi Kaaresoja, Pauli Laitinen, Stephen Brewster
A Wizard of Oz Study for an AR Multimodal Interface
Minkyung Lee, Mark Billinghurst
ICMI 2007, Nagoya, Japan
Automatic Inference of Cross-modal Nonverbal Interactions in Multiparty Conversations
Kazuhiro Otsuka, Hiroshi Sawada, Junji Yamato
Outstanding Student Paper:
Designing Audio and Tactile Crossmodal Icons for Mobile Devices
Eve Hoggan, Stephen Brewster
ICMI 2006, Banff, Canada
Co-Adaptation of Audio-Visual Speech and Gesture Classifiers
Christos Christoudias, Kate Saenko, Louis-Philippe Morency, and Trevor Darrell
Using Redundant Speech and Handwriting for Learning New Vocabulary and Understanding Abbreviations
Edward Kaiser
ICMI 2005, Trento,
Italy
Probabilistic Grounding of Situated Speech using Plan Recognition and Reference Resolution
Peter Gorniak and Deb Roy
Contextual Recognition of Head Gestures
L.P. Morency, C. Lee, C. Sidner, T. Darrell
Perceiving Ordinal Data Haptically Under Workload
A. Tang, P. McLachlan, K. Lowe, C. R. Saka, K. MacLean