Appel: MediaEval 2013, Retrieving Diverse Social Images 2013 Evaluation

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 14:03:13 +0000
From: POPESCU Adrian 211643 <adrian.popescu at cea.fr>
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Retrieving Diverse Social Images 2013 Task
@ the MediaEval 2013 Multimedia Benchmark Evaluation
http://www.multimediaeval.org
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Call for Participation
Regular registration deadline: 1 May 2013
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We are happy to announce the opening of the registration for the new
2013 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task of the MediaEval Multimedia
Benchmark.

**About the Retrieving Diverse Social Images 2013 Task**

The diversity task is a new task for 2013. The task addresses the
problem of result diversification in social photo retrieval.

We consider a tourist use case where a person tries to find more
information about a place she is potentially visiting. The person has
only a vague idea about the location, knowing the name of the place. She
uses the name to learn additional information about the monument from
the Internet, for instance by visiting a Wikipedia page, e.g., getting a
photo, the geographical position of the place and basic descriptions.
Before deciding whether this location suits her needs, the person is
interested in getting a more complete visual description of the place.

In this task, participants are provided with a ranked list of photos of
a location retrieved from common social photo search engines. These
results are typically noisy and redundant.

The task requires participants to exploit the provided visual and
textual information to refine these results by selecting only a sub-set
of photos.
The selected photos should be equally representative - accurate matches
of the query location, diverse - depicting the query location in a
complete manner (e.g., different views of a monument at different times
of the day/year and under different weather conditions, drawings,
sketches) and compact - select only very few results (e.g., 10-20 photos
per query that fit a typical page of search results).

**Task schedule (tentative)**

March-May: Registration and return usage agreements.
1 May: Release of development/training data.
3 June: Release of test data.
9 September: Participants submit their completed runs.
16 September: Evaluation of submitted runs.
30 September: Participants write their 2-page working notes papers.
18-19 October: MediaEval 2013 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain
The workshop is timed so that it is possible to attend both ACM
Multimedia 2013 (http://acmmm13.org/) and the MediaEval 2013 workshop in
the same trip.

**Task organizers**

Bogdan Ionescu, LAPI, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
María Menéndez, KnowDive, Department of Information Engineering and
Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy
Henning Müller, HES-SO in Sierre, Switzerland
Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, France

**Detailed information**

For more information about the task and in general about MediaEval see
http://www.multimediaeval.org. Registration is available through the
benchmark website.

We look forward to a very successful evaluation campaign!

On behalf of the task organizers,

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