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Video Browser Showdown 2013

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Jul 272012
 

This page contains the draft guidelines for the Video Browser Showdown 2013 (VBS2013). For information about submitting to VBS2013, see the MMM2013 web site. NOTE: Deadline extended to Sept. 21, 2012!

 

Procedure

The VBS2013 will be a moderated “special demo session” of MMM2013. The procedure will be similar to that of VBS2012: 16 KIS tasks (2×8, see below) need to be solved. For each task the moderator presents the target clip on a shared screen that is visible to all participants. The participants use their systems to perform an interactive search in the corresponding video file that will be specified by the moderator. The performance of participating tools will be evaluated in terms of average search time and successful answers. The decision for the best-performing tool is based on two runs:

  • Expert run: the participants (developers of the tools) themselves act as searchers
  • Novice run: volunteers from the audience act as searchers (after a short training phase)

The overall best-performing tool will be awarded with the “Best Video Browser” certificate.

 

Interactive Search

The videos to be used for the Video Browser Showdown will be provided without any metadata. However, participants are allowed to perform any content analysis that supports interactive browsing in the video (e.g., through novel content visualization, content clustering, or advanced seeker-bars etc.). The search process must be interactive, i.e., no text-queries are allowed.

 

Participation

Anyone with a video browsing tool that allows for interactive browsing, exploration, or navigation in a single video file (search shouldn’t be based on automatic queries) may participate. Examples of tools of interest are: a video shot browser (e.g., temporal-based or concept-based), a video player with extended navigation/interaction means, a video content exploration tool, or tools using advanced visualizations for improved navigation/interaction (video surrogates), etc. Tools developed for interactive video search on mobile devices are of special interest.

 

Data set and tasks

The data set will consist of about 30 video files (average duration of 1 hour) and will be made available to accepted participants several weeks before the competition. These video files will have the following characteristics: .mp4 file format, MPEG-4 video codec (H.264/AVC), AAC-LC audio codec, standard-definition resolution (except a few files with CIF resolution).
The KIS search tasks will be presented on-site. The goal of each KIS task is to find a preselected segment of interest (typically with a duration of 20 seconds) in a one-hour video file within a specified time limit (e.g., within 2 minutes) by interactive search. The segment of interest doesn’t necessarily start and stop at shot boundaries.

TOSCA-MP co-organises Video Browser Showdown 2013

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May 082012
 

After a successful first event at MMM 2012 in Klagenfurt, Austria, TOSCA-MP is again co-organising this live video browsing competition in 2013. The aim of the Video Browser Showdown is to evaluate video browsing tools for their efficiency at “Known Item Search” (KIS) tasks with a well-defined data set in direct comparison with other tools. For each KIS task the searchers need to interactively find a short video clip in a one-hour video file within a specific time limit.

Draft guidelines based on those from 2012 are published and we request feedback until June 15, 2012. The call for submissions can be found on the MMM 2013 pages.

CfP: MTAP Special Issue on Content Analysis and Indexing for Distributed Multimedia Search & Retrieval in Broadcasting

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May 042012
 

Call for Journal Papers: Content Analysis and Indexing for Distributed Multimedia Search & Retrieval in Broadcasting

Multimedia Tools and Applications (Special Issue)

The transition to digital broadcasting and the concomitant raise of new media channels has meant
a significant increase in communication potential for media publishers, which can now leverage
the advantages of online digital technologies to increase the value and attractiveness of their
services, thus gaining renewed value from content.

A side effect of such abundance of content is that consumers are overwhelmed with “information
overload”. In fact, while digital and Internet services are in principle more appealing due to
opportunity they offer to increase the number of thematic channels, the richness of distributed
content and the possibility for the users to interact, on the other side share and contribute as well
as the accessibility of such content still remain mostly unresolved problems.

On the media production side, professionals often experience dual problems in content selection
and organisation for cross-media and interactive productions. The organization of content into
searchable units through the use of flexible and scalable indexing techniques is seen as one
solution to these problems. In addition, it is of paramount importance to develop the ability to
generate, represent and distribute such informational units (e.g., indexes) in a way that is
consumable and manageable by a wide range of end user terminals, and seamlessly integrated
with web services and mobile apps. The implementation of this scenario would give birth to a
new paradigm which would radically overcome the traditional notion of multimedia indexing,
search and retrieval based on bidirectional interactions between users and index servers, paving
the way to an ecosystem in which users of content can at the same time have the role of indexers
and publishers, and where the universe of accessible objects is dynamically changing to meet
usage trends.

We therefore encourage the submission of works addressing single or several components of a
system for the scenario described above. Submissions should discuss one of the following topics,
with a particular emphasis on illustrating the context of the work in such a scenario.

  • Distributed multimedia feature extraction, clustering and classification
  • Distributed architectures for multimedia search
  • Topic and concept detection, categorization, multimedia genre / format characterisation
  • Natural query interfaces (e.g., based on speech or gesture input)
  • Content segmentation and summarization
  • Low complexity algorithms for acoustic, visual, and multimodal indexing
  • Multimodal personality identification (i.e. leveraging multiple sources of information)
  • Visual and acoustic event detection in multimedia
  • Crowd-assisted news production and material selection
  • Context based retrieval and indexing of news content
  • Efficient indexing of live multimedia streams
  • Automated trust estimation, crowd opinion mining
  • Analysis of social network activity about multimedia
  • Multimedia ontologies and tagging
  • HCI for efficient annotation and retrieval
  • Automated cross-media and cross-device linking (incl. multiple screens and control devices)
  • User studies, requirements & trends, standardization
  • Advanced user experience with multimedia

Tentative schedule

Manuscript Due: July 1st, 2012
First Round of Reviews: October 1st, 2012

Editors

Alberto Messina, RAI – Centre for Research and Technological Innovation, Italy; a.messina@rai.it
Andrea Basso, AT&T Labs – Research, USA; basso@research.att.com
Werner Bailer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, DIGITAL – Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Austria; werner.bailer@joanneum.at

Survey on user tasks in media production workflows

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Mar 072012
 

TOSCA-MP has published a questionnaire to gather information on tasks in media production and their properties. Professionals working in media production are invited to complete the short questionnaire at: http://tosca-mp.eu/tasksurvey/

In order to build models of tasks in the audiovisual media production workflow, we collect information on key tasks in this workflow. The list of tasks is not final, so you are free to add tasks you consider relevant, and describe their properties. The collected information will be used to develop content analysis and search tools that support these tasks and to research benchmarking that assess such tools for their performance in these real-world tasks rather than lab setups.

TOSCA-MP contributes 3 use cases to FIMS Phase 2

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Jan 312012
 

FIMS (Framework for Interoperable Media Service) is a joint effort of AMWA and the EBU to define an interoperable service oriented architecture for media production. Recently, FIMS has asked for submissions of use cases for phase 2 of FIMS. TOSCA-MP has contributed three use cases:

  • Automated metadata extraction services
  • Media query and search services
  • Benchmarking services for automated metadata extraction and search

The documents submitted to FIMS can be found here.

TOSCA-MP co-organised Video Browser Showdown 2012

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Jan 152012
 

DSC_0859-e1330957216890The Video Browser Showdown (held as a separate session of MMM 2012 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is a live video browsing competition where international researchers, working in the field of interactive video search, evaluate and demonstrate the efficiency of their tools in presence of the audience. The aim of the Video Browser Showdown is to evaluate video browsing tools for their efficiency at “Known Item Search” (KIS) tasks with a well-defined data set in direct comparison with other tools. For each KIS task the searchers need to interactively find a short video clip in a one-hour video file within a specific time limit.

TOSCA-MP provided content collected by its archive partners on the MAMMIE platform and helped running the competition. The two rounds of the competition – one with expert users, the other one with novice users from the audience – brought interesting insights in which types of browsing and interactive search approaches work for which type of content and user.

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