===================================================================== The Third International Video Browser Showdown Competition (VBS21014) ===================================================================== January 7, 2014, held in conjunction with the 20th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) in Dublin, Ireland http://www.videobrowsershowdown.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The VBS2014 will be a half-day workshop that will take place one day before MMM2014 at the conference venue of MMM2014 in Dublin, Ireland. Only the last 45 minutes will be public to the audience and act as a live and moderated "special demo session" of MMM2014 right before the Welcome Reception. This new schedule will allow a much more detailed analysis of the search performance of participating teams as well as different kinds of search tasks. The evaluation of the results will be published in an own paper after the workshop. Test Procedure In VBS2014 we will use four different search categories: - Visual KIS in a single video: the moderator presents a short video clip, randomly selected from a common video file, which has to be found within 3 minutes (the video file will be mentioned). - Descriptive KIS in a single video: the moderator presents a textual description about a specific segment, randomly selected from a common video file, which has to be found within 3 minutes (the video file will be mentioned). - Visual KIS in a video archive: the moderator presents a short video clip, randomly selected from a common collection of ten videos, which has to be found within 6 minutes. - Descriptive KIS in a video archive: the moderator presents a textual description about a specific segment, randomly selected from a common collection of ten videos, which has to be found within 6 minutes. Each search category will consist of several Known Item Search (KIS) tasks that should be solved as fast as possible by interactive search. A participant may register for only one or even for all four search categories. Interactive Search The videos to be used for the Video Browser Showdown will be provided without any metadata. However, participants are allowed to perform 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. Data Set and Search 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. 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) within a specified time limit by interactive search. The segment of interest doesn't necessarily start and stop at shot boundaries. VBS Server The Video Browser Showdown uses an own server application to evaluate found segments for correctness. Therefore, all participants will be connected to the server via a dedicated WiFi network and need to submit found segments to the server via a simple HTTP-like protocol. The server is connected to a beamer and presents the current score of all teams in a live manner. Participation Anyone with a video browsing tool that allows for interactive browsing, exploration, or navigation in a single video file or in video archives may participate. However, search shouldn't be based on automatic queries. 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. Moreover, also tools with collaborative interactive search (e.g., with two users) are allowed. Submission To apply for participation please submit a scientific demo paper (2-3 pages in Springer LNCS format) via the MMM2014 submission system at https://www.conftool.com/mmm2014/ (VBS track) until September 16, 2013. The submission should include a detailed description of the video browsing tool and how it supports interactive search in video. Submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure maximum quality. Accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings of MMM 2014. Important Dates Demo paper submission deadline: September 16, 2013 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2013 Camera-ready paper due: October 16, 2013 Author registration deadline: October 16, 2013