📌 Submission Details

• Who can submit (Invitation): The top 3 teams from the IntentVC Grand Challenge leaderboard.

• Submission format

  1. Length: Up to 6 pages (main content) + 2 additional pages for references only.

  2. Template: Please follow the template provided on the ACM MM 2025: https://acmmm2025.org/call-for-papers/.
     Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the ACM Article Template (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Please remember to add Concepts and Keywords. Please use the template in traditional double-column format to prepare your submissions. For example, Word users should use the Word Interim Template, and LaTeX users should use a sample-sigconf-authordraft template.

• Anonymity: Submissions are NOT blind. Please include author names and affiliations.

• Submission portal: By invitation (via email).

• Submission file (in .zip format), please include the following:

  1. Manuscript (PDF)

     • Assign a method name (e.g., TeamName-VC) so that we can cite your paper in the official challenge summary paper.

     • Make sure to cite the IntentVC Challenge in your paper to acknowledge the context of your work.
       
       @inproceedings{intentvc2025,
         title = {IntentVC 2025: The ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge on Intention-Oriented Controllable Video Captioning},
         author = {Komamizu, Takahiro and Kastner, Marc A. and Kawanishi, Yasutomo and Nguyen, Trung Thanh and Chen, Junan},
         booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia},
         year = {2025},
         pages = {1--2},
       }
       
       

  2. Source Code 

     • Complete source code with a clear and detailed usage guideline or README.

     • A downloadable link (e.g., Google Drive, etc.) to the trained weights that allow the organizers to reproduce the results on the leaderboard.
       
       

⚠️ IMPORTANT

• All files should be compressed into a single .zip file and submitted via the designated portal.

  1. The submitted .zip file name should be your name or team name.

  2. Make sure your submitted manuscript is camera-ready, including all authors, funding information, and acknowledgements.

  3. We encourage all teams to make their source code publicly available to support research and development in this field.

• Submitted materials will be used for review purposes only.

• ArXiv/archive policy follows the guidelines outlined at: https://acmmm2025.org/call-for-papers/
  
  

📚 Review and Publication

• Submissions will undergo a peer-review process managed by the challenge organizers and/or ACM MM Grand Challenge chairs.

• Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM MM 2025 Proceedings.