MediaEval 2013
Multimedia Benchmark Workshop

Table of Contents

Search and Hyperlinking of Television Content

Overview paper:

• The Search and Hyperlinking Task at MediaEval 2013
  Maria Eskevich, Robin Aly, Roeland Ordelman, Shu Chen, Gareth J.F. Jones

Working notes papers:

• A Unified, Modular and Multimodal Approach to Search and Hyperlinking Video
  John Preston, Jonathon Hare, Sina Samangooei, Jamie Davies, Neha Jain, David Dupplaw, Paul Lewis
• UPC at MediaEval 2013 Hyperlinking Task
  Carles Ventura, Marcel Tella-Amo, Xavier Giro-I-Nieto
• HITS and IRISA at MediaEval 2013: Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Camille Guinaudeau, Anca-Roxana Simon, Guillaume Gravier, Pascale Sébillot
• LinkedTV at MediaEval 2013 Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Mathilde Sahuguet, Benoit Huet, Barbora Červenková, Evlampios Apostolidis, Vasileios Mezaris, Daniel Stein, Stefan Eickeler, Jose Luis Redondo Garcia, Lukáš Pikora
• Ghent University-iMinds at MediaEval 2013: An Unsupervised Named Entity-based Similarity Measure for Search and Hyperlinking
  Tom De Nies, Wesley De Neve, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle
• Idiap at MediaEval 2013: Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Chidansh Bhatt, Nikolaos Pappas, Maryam Habibi, Andrei Popescu-Belis
• CUNI at MediaEval 2013 Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Petra Galuščáková, Pavel Pecina
• DCU Linking Runs at MediaEval 2013: Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Shu Chen, Gareth J.F. Jones, Noel E. O'Connor
• TOSCA-MP at Search and Hyperlinking of Television Content Task
  Michal Lokaj, Harald Stiegler, Werner Bailer
• Time-based Segmentation and Use of Jump-in Points in DCU Search Runs at the Search and Hyperlinking Task at MediaEval 2013
  Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones
• Searching and Hyperlinking using Word Importance Segment Boundaries in MediaEval 2013
  Kim Schouten, Robin Aly, Roeland Ordelman

Placing: Geo-coordinate Prediction for Social Multimedia

Overview paper:

• Working Notes for the Placing Task at MediaEval 2013
  Claudia Hauff, Bart Thomee, Michele Trevisiol

Working notes papers:

• CERTH at MediaEval Placing Task 2013
  Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Symeon Papadopoulos, Eleftherios Spyromitros-Xioufis, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Yiannis Kompatsiaris
• Exploration of Feature Combination in Geo-visual Ranking for Visual Content-based Location Prediction
  Xinchao Li, Michael Riegler, Martha Larson, Alan Hanjalic
• Identifying the Geographic Location of an Image with a Multimodal Probability Density Function
  Jamie Davies, Jonathon Hare, Sina Samangooei, John Preston, Neha Jain, David Dupplaw, Paul Lewis
• Photo Set Refinement and Tag Segmentation in Georeferencing Flickr Photos
  Jiewei Cao
• CEA LIST’s Participation at MediaEval 2013 Placing Task
  Adrian Popescu
• VIT@MediaEval 2013 Placing Task : Location Specific Tag Weighting for Language Model Based Placing of Images
  Sandeep Subramanian, Vivek Vidyasagaran, Krishna Chandramouli
• Multimodal Image Geocoding: The 2013 RECOD's Approach
  Lin Tzy Li, Jurandy Almeida, Otávio Penatti, Rodrigo Calumby, Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette, Marcos André Gonçalves, Ricardo Da Silva Torres

Spoken Web Search: Spoken Term Detection for Low Resource Languages

Overview paper:

• The Spoken Web Search Task
  Xavier Anguera, Florian Metze, Andi Buzo, Igor Szoke, Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes

Working notes papers:

• BUT SWS 2013 - Massive Parallel Approach
  Igor Szöke, Lukáš Burget, František Grézl, Lucas Ondel
• The Telefonica Research Spoken Web Search System for MediaEval 2013
  Xavier Anguera, Miroslav Skácel, Volker Vorwerk, Jordi Luque
• IIIT-H SWS 2013: Gaussian Posteriorgrams of Bottle-Neck Features for Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection
  Gautam Mantena, Kishore Prahallad
• The CUHK Spoken Web Search System for MediaEval 2013
  Haipeng Wang, Tan Lee
• The CMTECH Spoken Web Search System for MediaEval 2013
  Ciro Gracia, Xavier Anguera, Xavier Binefa
• TUKE at MediaEval 2013 Spoken Web Search Task
  Jozef Vavrek, Matúš Pleva, Martin Lojka, Peter Viszlay, Eva Kiktová, Daniel Hládek, Jozef Juhár
• LIA @ MediaEval 2013 Spoken Web Search Task: An I-Vector based Approach
  Mohamed Bouallegue, Grégory Senay, Mohamed Morchid, Driss Matrouf, Georges Linarès, Richard Dufour
• UNIZA System for the Spoken Web Search Task at MediaEval2013
  Roman Jarina, Michal Kuba, Róbert Gubka, Michal Chmulik, Martin Paralič
• ELiRF at MediaEval 2013: Spoken Web Search Task
  Jon Ander Gómez, Lluís-F. Hurtado, Marcos Calvo, Emilio Sanchis
• SpeeD @ MediaEval 2013: A Phone Recognition Approach to Spoken Term Detection
  Andi Buzo, Horia Cucu, Iris Molnar, Bogdan Ionescu, Corneliu Burileanu
• GTTS Systems for the SWS Task at MediaEval 2013
  Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, Amparo Varona, Mikel Penagarikano, Germán Bordel, Mireia Diez
• The L2F Spoken Web Search System for Mediaeval 2013
  Alberto Abad, Ramon Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso
• Spoken Web Search using an Ergodic Hidden Markov Model of Speech
  Asif Ali, Mark Clements

Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detection Task

Overview paper:

• The MediaEval 2013 Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detection
  Claire-Hélène Demarty, Cédric Penet, Markus Schedl, Bogdan Ionescu, Vu Lam Quang, Yu-Gang Jiang

Working notes papers:

• Fudan at MediaEval 2013: Violent Scenes Detection Using Motion Features and Part-Level Attributes
  Qi Dai, Jian Tu, Ziqiang Shi, Yu-Gang Jiang, Xiangyang Xue
• FAR at MediaEval 2013 Violent Scenes Detection: Concept-based Violent Scenes Detection in Movies
  Mats Sjöberg, Jan Schlüter, Bogdan Ionescu, Markus Schedl
• VISILAB at MediaEval 2013: Fight Detection
  Ismael Serrano, Oscar Déniz, Gloria Bueno
• The Vireo Team at MediaEval 2013: Violent Scenes Detection by Mid-level Concepts Learnt from Youtube
  Chun Chet Tan, Chong-Wah Ngo
• LIG at MediaEval 2013 Affect Task: Use of a Generic Method and Joint Audio-Visual Words
  Nadia Derbas, Bahjat Safadi, Georges Quénot
• TUDCL at MediaEval 2013 Violent Scenes Detection: Training with Multi-modal Features by MKL
  Shinichi Goto, Terumasa Aoki
• MTM at MediaEval 2013 Violent Scenes Detection: Through Acoustic-visual Transform
  Bruno Do Nascimento Teixeira
• NII-UIT at MediaEval 2013 Violent Scenes Detection Affect Task
  Vu Lam, Duy-Dinh Le, Sang Phan, Shin’ichi Satoh, Duc Anh Duong
• Technicolor/INRIA Team at the MediaEval 2013 Violent Scenes Detection Task
  Cédric Penet, Claire-Hélène Demarty, Guillaume Gravier, Patrick Gros

Social Event Detection

Overview paper:

• Social Event Detection at MediaEval 2013: Challenges, Datasets, and Evaluation
  Timo Reuter, Symeon Papadopoulos, Giorgos Petkos, Vasileios Mezaris, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Philipp Cimiano, Christopher de Vries, Shlomo Geva

Working notes papers:

• A Data-Driven Approach for Social Event Detection
  Dimitrios Rafailidis, Theodoros Semertzidis, Michalis Lazaridis, Michael G. Strintzis, Petros Daras
• Social Event Detection Via Sparse Multi-modal Feature Selection and Incremental Density Based Clustering
  Sina Samangooei, Jonathon Hare, David Dupplaw, Mahesan Niranjan, Nicholas Gibbins, Paul Lewis, Jamie Davies, Neha Jain, John Preston
• CERTH @ MediaEval 2013 Social Event Detection Task
  Manos Schinas, Eleni Mantziou, Symeon Papadopoulos, Georgios Petkos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris
• UPC at MediaEval 2013 Social Event Detection Task
  Daniel Manchon-Vizuete, Xavier Giro-I-Nieto
• Event Clustering and Classification from Social Media: Watershed-based and Kernel Methods
  Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Minh-Son Dao, Riccardo Mattivi, Emanuele Sansone, Francesco G.B De Natale, Giulia Boato
• Unsupervised Clustering of Social Events
  Matthias Zeppelzauer, Maia Zaharieva, Manfred Del Fabro
• ADMRG @ MediaEval 2013 Social Event Detection
  Taufik Sutanto, Richi Nayak
• Supervised Clustering of Social Media Streams
  Martin Wistuba, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
• A Similarity-based Chinese Restaurant Process for Social Event Detection
  Athanasios Papaoikonomou, Konstantinos Tserpes, Magdalini Kardara, Theodora Varvarigou
• VIT@MediaEval 2013 Social Event Detection Task: Semantic Structuring of Complementary Information for Clustering Events
  Itika Gupta, Kshitij Gautam, Krishna Chandramouli
• MediaEval 2013: Social Event Detection, Retrieval and Classification in Collaborative Photo Collections
  Markus Brenner, Ebroul Izquierdo

Visual Privacy: Preserving Privacy in Surveillance Videos

Overview paper:

• Overview of the MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy Task
  Atta Badii, Mathieu Einig, Tomas Piatrik

Working notes papers:

• Shape and Color-aware Privacy Protection
  Andrea Melle, Jean-Luc Dugelay
• Serious Fun: Cartooning for Privacy Protection
  Ádám Erdélyi, Thomas Winkler, Bernhard Rinner
• MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy Task: Using Adaptive Edge Detection for Privacy in Surveillance Videos
  Volker Eiselein, Tobias Senst, Ivo Keller, Thomas Sikora
• MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy Task: Pixel Based Anonymisation Technique
  Cesar Pantoja, Virginia Fernandez, Ebroul Izquierdo
• DAI at the MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy Task: Representing People with Foreground Edges
  Dominique Maniry, Esra Acar, Sahin Albayrak
• MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy Task: Physics-Based Technique for Protecting Privacy in Surveillance Videos
  Mohamed Sedky, Claude Chibelushi, Mansour Moniri
• TUB @ MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy Task: Reversible Scrambling with colour-preservative Characteristic
  Sebastian Schmiedeke, Pascal Kelm, Thomas Sikora
• MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy Task: Warping-based Privacy Protection Tool
  Pavel Korshunov, Touradj Ebrahimi
• MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy Task: Holistic Evaluation Framework for Privacy by Co-Design Impact Assessment
  Atta Badii, Ahmed Al-Obaidi, Mathieu Einig

Brave New Tasks

Similar Segments of Social Speech

Overview paper:

• The Similar Segments in Social Speech Task
  Nigel G. Ward, Steven D. Werner, David G. Novick, Elizabeth E. Shriberg, Catharine Oertel, Louis-Philippe Morency, Tatsuya Kawahara

Working notes papers:

• ELiRF at MediaEval 2013: Similar Segments in Social Speech Task
  Fernando García, Emilio Sanchis, Marcos Calvo, Ferran Pla, Lluís-F. Hurtado
• CUNI at MediaEval 2013 Similar Segments in Social Speech Task
  Petra Galuščáková, Pavel Pecina
• Evaluating Prosody-Based Similarity Models for Information Retrieval
  Steven D. Werner, Nigel G. Ward
• UWCL at MediaEval 2013: Similar Segments in Social Speech Task
  Gina-Anne Levow

Crowdsourcing for Social Multimedia

Overview paper:

• Crowdsourcing for Social Multimedia at MediaEval 2013: Challenges, Data set, and Evaluation
  Babak Loni, Martha Larson, Alessandro Bozzon, Luke Gottlieb

Working notes papers:

• LIA @ MediaEval 2013 Crowdsourcing Task: Metadata or not Metadata? That is a Fashion Question
  Mohamed Morchid, Richard Dufour, Mohamed Bouallegue, Georges Linarès, Driss Matrouf
• L3S at MediaEval 2013 Crowdsourcing for Social Multimedia Task
  Mihai Georgescu, Xiaofei Zhu
• An Investigation of Techniques that Aim to Improve the Quality of Labels provided by the Crowd
  Jonathon Hare, Maribel Acosta, Anna Weston, Elena Simperl, Sina Samangooei, David Dupplaw, Paul Lewis
• Frame the Crowd: Global Visual Features Labeling boosted with Crowdsourcing Information
  Michael Riegler, Mathias Lux, Christoph Kofler
• SQUARE: Benchmarking Crowd Consensus at MediaEval
  Aashish Sheshadri, Matthew Lease

Retrieving Diverse Social Images

Overview paper:

• Retrieving Diverse Social Images at MediaEval 2013: Objectives, Dataset and Evaluation
  Bogdan Ionescu, María Menéndez, Henning Müller, Adrian Popescu

Working notes papers:

• Experiments in Diversifying Flickr Result Sets
  Neha Jain, Jonathon Hare, Sina Samangooei, John Preston, Jamie Davies, David Dupplaw, Paul Lewis
• UPMC at MediaEval 2013: Relevance by Text and Diversity by Visual Clustering
  Christian Kuoman, Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki
• TIA-INAOE's Approach for the 2013 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task
  Hugo Jair Escalante, Alicia Morales-Reyes
• LAPI @ Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task 2013: Qualitative Photo Retrieval using Multimedia Content
  Anca-Livia Radu, Bogdan Boteanu, Oana Pleș, Bogdan Ionescu
• BMEMTM at MediaEval 2013 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task: Analysis of Text and Visual Information
  Gábor Szűcs, Zsombor Paróczi, Dániel Máté Vincz
• SocialSensor: Finding Diverse Images at MediaEval 2013
  David Corney, Carlos Martin, Ayse Göker, Eleftherios Spyromitros-Xioufis, Symeon Papadopoulos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Luca Aiello, Bart Thomee
• Ghent University-iMinds at MediaEval 2013 Diverse Images: Relevance-Based Hierarchical Clustering
  Baptist Vandersmissen, Abhineshwar Tomar, Fréderic Godin, Wesley De Neve, Rik Van de Walle
• MUCKE Participation at Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task of MediaEval 2013
  Anil Armagan, Adrian Popescu, Pinar Duygulu
• UEC, Tokyo at MediaEval 2013 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task
  Keiji Yanai, Do Hang Nga
• CEA LIST’s Participation at the MediaEval 2013 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task
  Adrian Popescu
• ARTEMIS @ MediaEval 2013: A Content-Based Image Clustering Method for Public Image Repositories
  Andrei Bursuc, Titus Zaharia

Soundtrack Selection for Commercials ("MusiClef")

Overview paper:

• MusiClef 2013: Soundtrack Selection for Commercials
  Cynthia C.S. Liem, Nicola Orio, Geoffroy Peeters, Markus Schedl

Working notes papers:

• LIA @ MediaEval 2013 MusiClef Task: A Combined Thematic and Acoustic Approach
  Mohamed Morchid, Richard Dufour, Mohamed Bouallegue, Georges Linarès, Driss Matrouf
• MediaEval 2013: Soundtrack Selection for Commercials Based on Content Correlation Modeling
  Han Su, Fang-Fei Kuo, Chu-Hsiang Chiu, Yen-Ju Chou, Man-Kwan Shan

Emotion in Music (Affect Task)

Overview paper:

• The MediaEval 2013 Brave New Task: Emotion in Music
  Mohammad Soleymani, Michael N. Caro, Erik M. Schmidt, Yi-Hsuan Yang

Working notes papers:

• The TUM Approach to the MediaEval Music Emotion Task Using Generic Affective Audio Features
  Felix Weninger, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller
• MIRUtrecht Participation in MediaEval 2013: Emotion in Music Task
  Anna Aljanaki, Frans Wiering, Remco C. Veltkamp
• Music Emotion Recognition using Gaussian Processes
  Konstantin Markov, Motofumi Iwata, Tomoko Matsui