Martha Larson at Delft University of Technology and Gareth Jones at Dublin City University act as the overall coordinators of MediaEval. Individual tasks are coordinated by a group of task organizers. It is collective efforts of this group of people that makes MediaEval possible.

The MediaEval 2011 Organizing Committee (Task Organizers) were:
Claire-Helene Demarty, Technicolor, France
Maria Eskevich, Dublin City University, Ireland
Isabelle Ferrane, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Guillaume Gravier, IRISA, France
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Pascal Kelm, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Christoph Kofler, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Florian Metze, CMU, USA
Vasileios Mezaris, ITI Certh, Greece
Vanessa Murdock, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Roeland Ordelman, University of Twente and Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
Adam Rae, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research India
Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex, Russia
Sebastian Schmiedeke, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Mohammad Soleymani, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Raphael Troncy, Eurecom, France

Essential support was provided by:
Fabrizio Falchi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Gabin Gninkoun, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Benoit Huet, EURECOM, France
Ioannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH-ITI, Greece
Symeon Papadopoulos, CERTH-ITI, Greece
Cedric Penet, Technicolor/INRIA, France
Tomas Piatrik, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Stevan Rundinac, TU Delft, Netherlands
Abhigyan Singh, TU Delft, Netherlands
Thijs Verschoor, University of Twente, Netherlands
Peng Xu, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Task Organizers for 2010 were:
Pavel Serdyukov, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, now Yandex, Russia
Vanessa Murdock, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Mohammad Soleymani University of Geneva, Switzerland

Essential support was provided by:
Maria Eskevich, Dublin City University, Ireland
Pascal Kelm, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Roeland Ordelman, University of Twente and Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (a.k.a. Beeld & Geluid), Netherlands
Tomas Piatrik, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Sebastian Schmiedeke, Technical University of Berlin, Germany


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MediaEval 2010 and 2011 were sponsored by the EU FP7 PetaMedia Network of Excellence and also by the ICT Labs of EIT (MediaEval 2011). We invite other organizations and projects to contribute by proposing new tasks and getting involved with organization.

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