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ediaEval 2012 Mul$media Benchmark Workshop Sante Croce in Fossabanda Pisa, Italy 4 October 2012
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ediaEval 2012 Mul$media  Benchmark  Workshop  

Sante  Croce  in  Fossabanda  

Pisa,  Italy  4  October  2012  

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•  What  is  (who  are)  MediaEval?  •  Where  are  we  now  in  year  five?  

•  What  to  expect  today?  

Overview

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The MediaEval Benchmark…

•  …evaluates  new  algorithms  for  mul$media  access  and  retrieval.    

•  …emphasizes  the  "mul$"  in  mul$media:  speech,  audio,  visual  content,  tags,  users,  context.    

•  …innovates  new  tasks  and  techniques  focusing  on  the  human  and  social  aspects  of  mul$media  content.  

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MediaEval Tasks 2012

•  Placing  Task  (6)  •  Social  event  detec$on  Task  (5)  •  Affect  Task:  Violent  Scenes  Detec$on  Task  (8)  •  Spoken  Web  Search  Task  (9)  •  Visual  Privacy  Task  (3)  •  Tagging  Task  (5)  

Number  of  teams  crossing  the  finish  line  this  year  is  in  parentheses.  

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Working Notes Papers

Black:  Par$cipant  papers;  Grey:  Task  overview  papers  

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MediaEval Organizers 2012  

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Workshop Organizing Committee

•  Proceedings  Chairs:  Sebas$an  Schmiedeke  and  Pascal  Kelm,  Technische  Universität  Berlin,  Germany    

•  Prac00oners  Chair:  Xavier  Anguera,  Telefonica,  Spain    •  Awards  Chair:  Mohammad  Soleymani,  Imperial  College  

London,  UK  •  Mul0media  Chair:  Florian  Metze,  CMU,  USA  (Supported  by  

Babak  Loni,  TU  Dele)    •  Logis0cs  Chair:  Saskia  Peters,  TU  Dele,  Netherlands  •  Local  Organiza0on  support:  Alessio  Bazzica,  Università  

degli  Studi  di  Firenze)  •  General  Chair  and  contact  person:  Martha  Larson  (TU  

Dele,  Netherlands)  

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MediaEval History  •  MediaEval  was  founded  as  VideoCLEF  in  2008.  

•  Ran  in  2008  and  2009  at  the  Cross  Language  Evalua$on  Forum  (CLEF)  and  became  MediaEval  in  2010.  

•  Ran  in  2010  and  2011  as  an  independent  benchmark  under  the  sponsorship  of  the  PetaMedia  Network  of  Excellence.  

•  In  2012,  ran  as  a  completely  “boiom-­‐up  benchmark”  with  no  parent  project.  

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Where are we now in year five?  

•  Wider  MedialEval  community  has  grown:  148  people  took  $me  to  fill  in  the  2012  survey.  

•  From,  2008-­‐1012  we  have  generated  100  papers  (VideoCLEF  +  MediaEval  Working  Notes  Proceedings  plus  other  workshop,  conference  and  journal  papers  that  use  MediaEval  data).  

•  We  now  have  a  new  “Brave  New  Task”  track  to  incubate  promising  tasks  and  allow  them  to  mature  to  full  tasks.  

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Where are we now in year five?  

•  Wider  MedialEval  community  has  grown:  148  people  took  $me  to  fill  in  the  2012  survey.  

•  From,  2008-­‐1012  we  have  generated  100  papers  (VideoCLEF  +  MediaEval  Working  Notes  Proceedings  plus  other  workshop,  conference  and  journal  papers  that  use  MediaEval  data).  

•  We  now  have  a  new  “Brave  New  Task”  track  to  incubate  promising  tasks  and  allow  them  to  mature  to  full  tasks.  

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Brave New Tasks

Brave  New  Tasks  is  an  “incuba$ng”  track  that  serves  to  breed  new  tasks.  

Flickr  Mads  Boe  

•  User  Account  Matching  (1)  

•  Search  and  Hyperlinking  (6)  •  Musiclef:  Mul$modal  Music  Tagging  (1)  

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Familiar from past years

•  Wireless  internet  not  reliable  •  We  are  recording  audio  (Florian).  

•  Consent  forms  for  recorded  audio  (Babak):  Please  sign  and  return  your  form  

•  T-­‐Shirts:  Nearly  random  

•  The  restroom  is  across  the  courtyard.  

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Familiar from last year

•  Short  (10  minute)  presenta$ons:    – Please  respect  the  bell.  – Please  load  your  presenta$on  in  the  break  right  before  your  session.  

– The  Pillory:  What  happens  if  you  run  over  your  $me  slot  

•  The  caterer  expects  us  to  keep  on  schedule.  

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Multimedia@MediaEval 2012  

•  We  not  only  analyze  mul$media  we  create  it.  •  Please  take  photos:  Babak  Loni  will  collect  them  on  the  final  day  and  upload  them  to  the  Mediaeval  Flickr  account.  

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More multimedia 2012  

•  John  N.A.  Brown  is  our  filmmaker  this  year.  

•  To  join  us  he  takes  a  break  from  his  ‘other  life’  working  to  finishing  his  PhD  in  Erasmus  Mundus  Joint  Doctoral  Programme  in  Interac$ve  and  Cogni$ve  Environments.  

•  He  may  ask  you  to  say  a  few  words  about  MediaEval  in  front  of  the  camera.  

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Keynote Speakers

•  Invited  Talk  by  Jana  Eggink,  BBC  Research  and  Development,  UK  

•  Invited  Talk  by  Nicola  Ferro,  University  of  Padova,  Italy  (PROMISE  Co-­‐ordinator)  

•  MediaEval  Code  of  Conduct,  Invited  Talk,  by  Adam  Rae,  Yahoo!  Research,  Spain  

•  The  Virtual  Kitchen  for  benchmarking:  Invited  Talk,  Florian  Metze,  CMU,  USA  

•  Special  appearance  by  Carol  Peters,  ISTI-­‐CNR,  Italy  (Co-­‐ordinator  emeritus  of  the  CLEF  Cross-­‐Language  EvaluaCon  Forum)  

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Looking back; looking forward

•  Collec$ng  ideas  for  MediaEval  2013    Please  fill  out  and  return  the  form  to  Gareth  

•  Pitch  ideas  for  new  tasks  for  next  year  at  Lightening  session  (3  min.)  – Many  current  tasks  

– The  2012  BNTs  – Bogdan,  Jana,  Alberto,    Chritoph    

Flickr  Echoes89    

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Poster Session: Today 18:30 •  Crowdsourcing  Social  Fashion  Images:  a  Pilot  Study  

–  Authors:  Maria  Menendez,  Babak  Loni,  Martha  Larson  et  al.  from  the  CUbRIK  project  

–  Ins$tutes:  University  of  Trento,  TU  Dele,  Politecnico  die  Milano  •  Enhanced  Seman0c  Similarity  using  Seman0c  Web  Technology  

Authors:  Tom  De  Nies  et  al.  –  Affilia$ons:  Ghent  University  -­‐  IBBT  -­‐  Mul$media  Lab  and  KAIST  -­‐  IVY  Lab  

•  Axes:  Access  to  Audio-­‐Visual  Archives  –  Authors:  Shu  Chen,  Robin  Aly,  Gareth  Jones,  Roeland  Ordelman  –  Affilia$ons:  Dublin  City  University  and  University  of  TRent  

•  Distant-­‐speech  Interac0on  for  Robust  Home  Applica0ons  –  Authors:  Alberto  Abad  at  al.  from  the  Dirha  project  –  Affilia$ons:  INESC-­‐ID      

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Group Photo: Before lunch Friday

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Santa Croce in Fossabanda

Flickr  Marius  B    

Ciao!  


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