MediaEval 2012 Opening
- 1. ediaEval 2012 Mul$media Benchmark Workshop Sante Croce in Fossabanda Pisa, Italy 4 October 2012
- 2. Overview • What is (who are) MediaEval? • Where are we now in year five? • What to expect today?
- 3. The MediaEval Benchmark… • …evaluates new algorithms for mul$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$media content.
- 4. MediaEval Tasks 2012 • Placing Task (6) • Social event detec$on Task (5) • Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detec$on Task (8) • Spoken Web Search Task (9) • Visual Privacy Task (3) • Tagging Task (5) Number of teams crossing the finish line this year is in parentheses.
- 5. Working Notes Papers 60 50 40 30 20 2011 10 2010 0 2010 2011 2012 Black: Par$cipant papers; Grey: Task overview papers
- 7. Workshop Organizing Committee • Proceedings Chairs: Sebas$an Schmiedeke and Pascal Kelm, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany • Prac00oners Chair: Xavier Anguera, Telefonica, Spain • Awards Chair: Mohammad Soleymani, Imperial College London, UK • Mul0media Chair: Florian Metze, CMU, USA (Supported by Babak Loni, TU Dele) • Logis0cs Chair: Saskia Peters, TU Dele, Netherlands • Local Organiza0on support: Alessio Bazzica, Università degli Studi di Firenze) • General Chair and contact person: Martha Larson (TU Dele, Netherlands)
- 8. MediaEval History • MediaEval was founded as VideoCLEF in 2008. • Ran in 2008 and 2009 at the Cross Language Evalua$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.
- 9. 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.
- 12. Where are we now in year five? • Wider MedialEval community has grown: 148 people took $me to fill in the 2012 survey. • From, 2008-‐1012 we have generated 100 papers (VideoCLEF + MediaEval Working Notes Proceedings plus other workshop, conference and journal papers that use MediaEval data). • We now have a new “Brave New Task” track to incubate promising tasks and allow them to mature to full tasks.
- 13. Brave New Tasks • User Account Matching (1) • Search and Hyperlinking (6) • Musiclef: Mul$modal Music Tagging (1) Brave New Tasks is an “incuba$ng” track that serves to breed new tasks. Flickr Mads Boe
- 14. Familiar from past years • Wireless internet not reliable • We are recording audio (Florian). • Consent forms for recorded audio (Babak): Please sign and return your form • T-‐Shirts: Nearly random • The restroom is across the courtyard.
- 15. Familiar from last year • Short (10 minute) presenta$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 $me slot • The caterer expects us to keep on schedule.
- 17. Multimedia@MediaEval 2012 • We not only analyze mul$media we create it. • Please take photos: Babak Loni will collect them on the final day and upload them to the Mediaeval Flickr account.
- 18. 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.
- 19. 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)
- 20. Looking back; looking forward • Collec$ng ideas for MediaEval 2013 Please fill out and return the form to Gareth • Pitch ideas for new tasks for next year at Lightening session (3 min.) – Many current tasks – The 2012 BNTs – Bogdan, Jana, Alberto, Chritoph Flickr Echoes89
- 21. Poster Session: Today 18:30 • Crowdsourcing Social Fashion Images: a Pilot Study – Authors: Maria Menendez, Babak Loni, Martha Larson et al. from the CUbRIK project – Ins$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
- 22. Group Photo: Before lunch Friday
- 23. Santa Croce in Fossabanda Ciao! Flickr Marius B