Call for Participation
MediaEval 2016 Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark
First data releases: May 2016
Regular registration: Open through June 2016
For dates per task see: http://multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2016
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MediaEval offers shared-tasks in multimedia retrieval and analysis.
Successful approaches make use of multiple modalities and go beyond
visual content to also exploit audio, text, and other contextual
information. For each task, participants receive a task definition, task data, and
accompanying resources (dependent on task) such as keyframes, visual features, and social
metadata.

Participating teams submit results, which are evaluated. The teams then
write up their results and present them at the MediaEval 2016 workshop.
This year?s workshop will be held 20-21 October, right after ACM
Multimedia in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Over its lifetime, MediaEval
teamwork and collaboration has given rise to nearly 600 publications in
the workshop proceedings, at conferences, and in journals.

MediaEval 2016 is offering the following tasks:

*Verifying Multimedia Use Task*
Detect misleading or deceptive images and videos shared on Twitter.

*Emotional Impact of Movies Task*
Infer the affective impact of film clips based on audio-visual content.

*C@MERATA: Querying Musical Scores with English Noun Phrases Task*
Information retrieval on musical scores.

*Predicting Media Interestingness Task*
Infer interesting frames and segments of movies (using audio, visual
features, text).

*Zero Cost Speech Recognition Task (ex QUESST)*
Train the best possible speech recognition system (for Vietnamese) using
only free resources.

*Placing Task*
Automatically estimate the locations of photos and videos (using audio,
visual features, text).

*Multimodal Person Discovery in Broadcast TV Task*
Automatically name the people occurring in broadcast content (audio,
visual features, text).

*Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task*
Diversify image results lists (text, visual features).

*Context of Multimedia Experience Task*
Predict multimedia content suitable for watching in stressful situations.

Participation is open to all interested research groups.
Click the ?MediaEval 2016 registration page? link at:
http://multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2016

***MediaEval 2016 Timeline***
(dates vary slightly from task to task, see the individual task pages
for the individual deadlines: http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2016)
May-June: Release of development/training data.
June-July: Release of test data.
Begin-Mid.  September: Run submission
End Sept.: Participants submit their 2-page working notes papers
20-21 October: MediaEval 2016 Workshop right after ACM Multimedia in
Amsterdam, Netherlands

*Contact*
For questions or additional information please contact Martha Larson
m.a.larson@tudelft.nl or visit http://www.multimediaeval.org