MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark Call for Papers

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MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark
Call for Survey Participation
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Reliability of Social Multimedia Annotations Task


The MediaEval 2015 season kicks off with the MediaEval Multimedia
Benchmark Task Survey. The survey collects the input of the research
community about which challenges should be offered by MediaEval in
2015.

The survey can be found at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mediaeval2015

Please add your email address to the survey, in order to receive more
information specifically about 2015.

MediaEval (http://www.multimediaeval.org) is a benchmarking initiative
dedicated to evaluating new algorithms for multimedia access and
retrieval. It emphasizes the 'multi' in multimedia and focuses on
human and social aspects of multimedia tasks.

MediaEval attracts participants who are interested in multimodal
approaches to multimedia involving, e.g., speech recognition, visual
analysis, audio analysis, music and musical scores, user-contributed
information (tags, comments), viewer affective response, social
networks, user privacy, geo-coordinates and crowdsourcing.

MediaEval 2015 contains a new task on Reliability of Social Multimedia
Annotations (I'm one the organizer of the task) that might be of your
interest. So please let us know, through the survey, your feedback and
suggestions on the task.

The survey asks you questions about the 13 tasks that have been
proposed for MediaEval 2015. It will take you about 5 minutes if you
fill in only the main questions. It will take about 30 minutes if you
choose to answer the additional questions and give comments. We
encourage you to answer the additional questions on the tasks that
most interest you. Your answers contribute to decisions than are made
about the design and implementation of the tasks.

The MediaEval 2015 task list will be finalized and sign up for
participation will open at the end of February. Please be sure to fill
your email address in on the first page of the survey if you would
like to receive a mail when sign up opens.

Our goal is to have the survey filled out by as many researchers as
possible in the next three weeks—please pass the survey link along
to colleagues in the field of multimedia who might be interested.

Note that the deadline for results submissions this year will be the
end of August. The MediaEval 2015 workshop will be held 14-15
September near Dresden, Germany. It is a satellite event of
Interspeech 2015, which takes place in Dresden.

For general information about MediaEval 2015 see
http://www.multimediaeval.org or contact Martha Larson
m.a.larson@tudelft.nl with questions, while if you want to know more
on the Reliability of Social Multimedia Annotations task, please
contact me.

Best Regards,
Concetto 

-- 
Dr. Concetto Spampinato, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering 
University of Catania
Viale A. Doria 6
95125 Catania, Italy
http://www.dieei.unict.it

Phone: +39 095 7387902
Fax: +39 095 7382397
e-mail: cspampin@dieei.unict.it, cspampin@gmail.com