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MediaEval 2012

Register to participate in MediaEval 2012 on the MediaEval 2012 Registration Site.

Please note that the MediaEval 2012 workshop uses a separate registration system that will open in June.

Timeline 2012 The exact deadlines for data release and run submission vary from task to task. Please see the individual task pages for the exact dates.

March-May 2011: Sign-up
May: Sign standard data usage agreement
May-June: 1st data release
Jun-July: 2nd data release
Aug-Sept.: Run submission
mid Sept.: Result release
28 Sept: Working notes paper deadline
4-5 Oct.: Workshop in Pisa

MediaEval 2012 is offering six tasks in 2012. Sign up to participate in these tasks on the MediaEval 2012 Registration Site Please sign up by 31 May 2012.

Placing Task
Participants place Flickr videos on a map,' i.e., assign geo-coordinates to videos using one or more of: Flickr metadata, visual content, audio content, social information. Read more...

Social Event Detection Task
This task requires participants to discover events and detect media items that are related to either a specific social event or an event-class of interest. Read more...

Spoken Web Search
This task involves searching FOR audio content WITHIN audio content USING an audio content query. This task is particularly interesting for speech researchers in the area of spoken term detection. Read more...

Tagging Task
This task requires participants to automatically assign tags to Internet videos using features derived from speech, audio, visual content or associated textual or social information. This year we will again focus on tags that reflect the genre of the video. Read more...

Affect Task: Violence Detection Task
This task requires participants to deploy multimodal features to automatically detect of portions of movies containing violent material. Read more...

Visual Privacy
Participants blur human faces in video with the goal of obscuring privacy while simultaneously assuring that the resulting visual impression is maximally acceptable to human viewers. Read more...

Brave New Tasks
Additionally, User Account Matching and Search and Hyperlinking will run as Brave New Tasks.

2012 schedule
The exact dates of the data releases are set by the task organizers and are listed on the description pages of the individual tasks.

mid-February: MediaEval 2012 tasks announced
1 March: MediaEval 2012 sign up opens
31 May: Last day for regular sign up (late sign-up will stay open a bit longer)
May-June: Development data release
June-July: Test data release
August-September: Run submission deadline
mid-September: Release of results
End September: Two-page working notes papers due
4-5 October: MediaEval 2012 Workshop in Pisa, Italy
The workshop is timed so that people can attend the 12th European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2012 (7-13 October) in the same trip.

For questions please contact Martha Larson m.a.larson (at) tudelft.nl