MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark
Call for Survey Participation
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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.

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 more information see http://www.multimediaeval.org or contact Martha Larson
m.a.larson@tudelft.nl with questions.