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IEEE Five-Minute Video Clip Contest (5-MICC)

The 5-MICC contest is open for submissions from IEEE SPS members, including undergraduate and graduate students of all majors, as well as researchers from all over the world.

Call for Proposals

The current Call for Proposals for the 5-MICC can be found on the SPS Call for Proposals page. Please note that your proposal must be endorsed by one of the TCs. For endorsement, you must submit your proposal for endorsement to the SPS Technical Committee (TC) that best fits your proposal by 3 January 2023 for the 5-MICC. You can find the Society’s TCs located on the Technical Committees page on the SPS website.

The submission deadline for TCs to submit endorsed proposals is 7 January 2023 for the 5-MICC.

Team Formation and Eligibility

Each team participating should be composed of one faculty member or someone with a PhD degree employed by the university (the Supervisor), at most one graduate student (the Tutor), and at least three, but no more than ten undergraduate students. At least three of the undergraduate team members must hold either regular or student memberships of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Undergraduate students who are in the first two years of their college studies, as well as high school students who are capable to contribute are welcome to participate in a team. A participant cannot be on more than one team.

Prize for Finalists

The three teams with highest performance in the open competition will be selected as finalists and invited to participate in the final competition at ICIP 2023. The champion team will receive a grand prize of $5,000. The first and the second runner-up will receive a prize of $2,500 and $1,500, respectively, in addition to travel grants and complimentary conference registrations.

  • Up to three student members from each finalist team will be provided travel support to attend the conference in-person. In-person attendance of the physical conference is required for reimbursement.
  • Complimentary conference registration for the three finalist team members from each team who present at ICIP. These complimentary conference registrations cannot be used to cover any papers accepted by the conference. If you are one of the three finalist team members from each team and wish to receive complimentary registration and/or conference banquet access, you must email Jaqueline Rash, Jaqueline.rash@ieee.org, with this information once your team has been selected as a finalist.
  • The three finalist team members from each team will also be invited to join the Conference Banquet and the SPS Student Job Fair, so that they can meet and talk to SPS leaders and global experts. Please note registration to the Conference Banquet and Student Job Fair is limited and based on availability.

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IEEE SPS 5-Minute Video Clip (5-MICC) at ICIP 2023 - Open Theme

IEEE ICIP 2023 | 8-11 October 2023 | Download full details

Call for Videos

The Signal Processing Society is pleased to announce the 5-Minute Video Clip Contest (5-MICC) at ICIP in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia October 08 - 11, 2023. 

The 5-MICC aims to encourage the signal processing community to explain concepts in an innovative way using a video. The winners will be selected based on the quality of their project, novelty, clarity of presentation, and creativity. 

This year the competition will run with an open topic within the scope of the ICIP. The submitted videos should address the following topics:

  • Sensing, Representation, Modeling, and Registration 
  • Motion Estimation, Registration, and Fusion 
  • Synthesis, Rendering, and Visualization 
  • Deep Learning for Images and Videos
  • Computational Imaging 
  • Learning with Limited Labels
  • Restoration and Enhancement Image & Video Interpretation and Understanding Compression, Coding, and Transmission 
  • Detection, Recognition, Retrieval, and Classification 
  • Color, Multi-spectral, and Hyper-spectral Imaging 
  • Biometrics, Forensics, and Security 
  • Stereoscopic, Multi-view, and 3D Processing 
  • Biomedical and Biological Image Processing 
  • Image & Video Quality Models Emerging Applications and Systems  

The contest is open for submissions from IEEE SPS members, including undergraduate and graduate students of all majors, as well as researchers from all over the world. Each team must be composed of:

  • One faculty member (the Supervisor)
  • At most one graduate student (the Tutor),
  • At least three but no more than ten undergraduate students. At least three undergraduate team members must be either IEEE SPS student members or SPS members by the time they submit the full 5-minute video (see below).

Organizers - Student Services Committee:

  • Angshul Majumdar, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, India
  • Lucas Thomaz, Instituto de Telecomunicações/Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal
  • Shan Du, University of British Columbia, Canada 
  • Hemant Kumar Aggarwal, University of Iowa, USA

There will be three stages for the call:

1. Submission of 30-Second Trailers:
Submission deadline: 29 July 2023
Announcement of the best 10 teams: 5 August 2023

Each submission should include a report, in the form of an IEEE conference paper, up to 2 pages, on the main idea/concept of the full video that will be submitted with the related written script. The selected best 10 teams will be identified and invited to send the final 5-minute video to participate in the final competition.

2. Submission of the Full 5-Minute Video:
Submission deadline: 27 August 2023
Announcement of the three best videos: 3 September 2023

Three finalist teams will be selected by the organizers.

3. Final Contest at ICIP 2023 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Conference dates: 8-11 October 2023

Videos available on public voting platform: 10 September - 10 October 2023. The final ranking will be decided by the organizers. also taking into account the popular vote. The winners and final team ranking will be announced during the conference. 

Prize for Finalists

The three teams with highest performance in the open competition will be selected as finalists and invited to participate in the final competition at ICIP 2023. The champion team will receive a grand prize of $5,000. The first and the second runner-up will receive a prize of $2,500 and $1,500, respectively, in addition to travel grants and complimentary conference registrations.

  • Up to three student members from each finalist team will be provided travel support to attend the conference in-person. In-person attendance of the physical conference is required for reimbursement.
  • Complimentary conference registration for the three finalist team members from each team who present at ICIP. These complimentary conference registrations cannot be used to cover any papers accepted by the conference. If you are one of the three finalist team members from each team and wish to receive complimentary registration and/or conference banquet access, you must email Jaqueline Rash, with this information once your team has been selected as a finalist.
  • The three finalist team members from each team will also be invited to join the Conference Banquet and the SPS Student Job Fair, so that they can meet and talk to SPS leaders and global experts. Please note registration for the Conference Banquet and Student Job Fair is limited and based on availability.

Finalist Teams

Team Name: P3552 (Grand Prize Winner)
University: Mar Athanasius College of Engineering
Video: Visualizing MRI & CT Scans using Mixed Reality: An Innovative Approach for Medical Imaging Visualization
Supervisor: Dr. M V Rajesh Maliyeckal
Tutor: Salih Yoosaf
Students:
Naeema Ziyad, Navaneeth V Nair, Gopika Madhu, Navya Prasad

Team Name: P3553 (Second Runner-Up Prize)
University: Model Engineering College Thrikkakara
Video: EPILET - Epilepsy Personal Intelligent Life-saving Efficacious Technology: A bracelet designed to detect epilepsy seizures through continuous monitoring and real-time alerts, providing personal safety and peace of mind with intelligent and life-saving technology
Supervisor: Reshna S.
Tutor: Thomas K. Gimmy
Students:
Aravindan Maliyeckal, Akash K V, Lekshmi Unnikrishnan, Nandana Promoth

Team Name: P3556 (First Runner-Up Prize)
University: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Video: The Aerial Warrior: Fighting Against Mosquito Menace
Supervisor: Shaikh Anowarul Fattah
Students:
Mayesha Haque, Angkon Deb, Asif Islam

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