MediaEval 2014
Multimedia Benchmark Workshop

Table of Contents

Social Event Detection

Overview paper:

• Social Event Detection at MediaEval 2014: Challenges, Datasets, and Evaluation
  Georgios Petkos, Symeon Papadopoulos, Vasileios Mezaris, Yiannis Kompatsiaris

Working notes papers:

• Clustering and Retrieval of Social Events in Flickr
  Maia Zaharieva, Daniel Schopfhauser, Manfred Del Fabro, Matthias Zeppelzauer
• LIMSI @ MediaEval SED 2014
  Camille Guinaudeau, Antoine Laurent, Hervé Bredin
• CERTH @ MediaEval 2014 Social Event Detection Task
  Marina Riga, Georgios Petkos, Symeon Papadopoulos, Manos Schinas, Yiannis Kompatsiaris
• UPC at MediaEval 2014 Social Event Detection Task
  Daniel Manchon-Vizuete, Irene Gris-Sarabia, Xavier Giro-I-Nieto
• Ranking Based Clustering for Social Event Detection
  Taufik Sutanto, Richi Nayak
• SAIVT-ADMRG @ MediaEval 2014 Social Event Detection
  Simon Denman, David Dean, Clinton Fookes, Sridha Sridharan

Query by Example Search on Speech (QUESST)

Overview paper:

• Query by Example Search on Speech at Mediaeval 2014
  Xavier Anguera, Luis-Javier Rodriguez Fuentes, Igor Szöke, Andi Buzo, Florian Metze

Working notes papers:

• ELiRF at MediaEval 2014: Query by Example Search on Speech Task (QUESST)
  Marcos Calvo, Mayte Giménez, Lluís-F. Hurtado, Emilio Sanchis, Jon A. Gómez
• BUT QUESST 2014 system description
  Igor Szöke, Miroslav Skácel, Lukáš Burget
• The NNI Query-by-Example System for MediaEval 2014
  Peng Yang, Haihua Xu, Xiong Xiao, Lei Xie, Cheung-Chi Leung, Hongjie Chen, Jia Yu, Hang Lv, Lei Wang, Su Jun Leow, Bin Ma, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li
• SpeeD @ MediaEval 2014: Spoken Term Detection with Robust Multilingual Phone Recognition
  Andi Buzo, Horia Cucu, Corneliu Burileanu
• CUHK System for QUESST Task of MediaEval 2014
  Haipeng Wang, Tan Lee
• The SPL-IT Query by Example Search on Speech system for MediaEval 2014
  Jorge Proença, Arlindo Veiga, Fernando Perdigão
• IIIT-H System for MediaEval 2014 QUESST
  Santosh Kesiraju, Gautam Mantena, Kishore Prahallad
• GTTS-EHU Systems for QUESST at MediaEval 2014
  Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, Amparo Varona, Mikel Penagarikano, Germán Bordel, Mireia Diez
• TUKE System for MediaEval 2014 QUESST
  Jozef Vavrek, Peter Viszlay, Martin Lojka, Matúš Pleva, Jozef Juhár

Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detection Task

Overview paper:

• The MediaEval 2014 Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detection
  Mats Sjöberg, Bogdan Ionescu, Yu-Gang Jiang, Vu Lam Quang, Markus Schedl, Claire-Hélène Demarty

Working notes papers:

• ViVoLab and CVLab - MediaEval 2014: Violent Scenes Detection Affect Task
  Diego Castán, Mario Rodríguez, Alfonso Ortega, Carlos Orrite, Eduardo Lleida
• MIC-TJU at MediaEval Violent Scenes Detection (VSD) 2014
  Bowen Zhang, Yun Yi, Hanli Wang, Jian Yu
• NII-UIT at MediaEval 2014 Violent Scenes Detection Affect Task
  Vu Lam, Duy-Dinh Le, Sang Phan, Shin'ichi Satoh, Duc Anh Duong
• Fudan-NJUST at MediaEval 2014: Violent Scenes Detection Using Deep Neural Networks
  Qi Dai, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang, Xiangyang Xue, Jinhui Tang
• FAR at MediaEval 2014 Violent Scenes Detection: A Concept-based Fusion Approach
  Mats Sjöberg, Ionuț Mironică, Markus Schedl, Bogdan Ionescu
• TUB-IRML at MediaEval 2014 Violent Scenes Detection Task: Violence Modeling through Feature Space Partitioning
  Esra Acar, Sahin Albayrak
• MTM at MediaEval 2014 Violence Detection
  Bruno do Nascimento Teixeira
• RECOD at MediaEval 2014: Violent Scenes Detection Task
  Sandra Avila, Daniel Moreira, Mauricio Perez, Daniel Moraes, Isabela Cota, Vanessa Testoni, Eduardo Valle, Siome Goldenstein, Anderson Rocha

Emotion in Music

Overview paper:

• Emotion in Music Task at MediaEval 2014
  Anna Aljanaki, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Mohammad Soleymani

Working notes papers:

• The Munich LSTM-RNN Approach to the MediaEval 2014 "Emotion in Music'" Task
  Eduardo Coutinho, Felix Weninger, Björn Schuller, Klaus R. Scherer
• MediaEval 2014: THU-HCSIL Approach to Emotion in Music Task using Multi-level Regression
  Yuchao Fan, Mingxing Xu
• Beatsens' Solution for MediaEval 2014 Emotion in Music Task
  Wanyi Yang, Kang Cai, Bin Wu, Ying Wang, Xiaoou Chen, Deshun Yang, Andrew Horner
• Affective Feature Design and Predicting Continuous Affective Dimensions from Music
  Naveen Kumar, Rahul Gupta, Tanaya Guha, Colin Vaz, Maarten Van Segbroeck, Jangwon Kim, Shrikanth S. Narayanan
• Dynamic Music Emotion Recognition Using State-Space Models
  Konstantin Markov, Tomoko Matsui
• Music Emotion Tracking with Continuous Conditional Neural Fields and Relative Representation
  Vaiva Imbrasaite, Peter Robinson

Visual Privacy: Preserving Privacy in Surveillance Videos

Overview paper:

• Overview of the MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy Task
  Atta Badii, Touradj Ebrahimi, Christian Fedorczak, Pavel Korshunov, Tomas Piatrik, Volker Eiselein, Ahmed Al-Obaidi

Working notes papers:

• Multi-Level Cartooning for Context-Aware Privacy Protection in Visual Sensor Networks
  Ádám Erdélyi, Thomas Winkler, Bernhard Rinner
• TUB @ MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy Task: Reversible Scrambling on Foreground Masks
  Sebastian Schmiedeke, Pascal Kelm, Lutz Goldmann, Thomas Sikora
• Privacy Protection Filter Using Shape and Color Cues
  Hajer Fradi, Yiqing Yan, Jean-Luc Dugelay
• MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy Task: De-identification and Re-identification of Subjects in CCTV
  Cesar Pantoja, Ebroul Izquierdo
• TUB-IRML at MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy Task: Privacy Filtering through Blurring and Color Remapping
  Dominique Maniry, Esra Acar, Sahin Albayrak
• UNIZA @ Mediaeval 2014 Visual Privacy Task: Object Transparency Approach
  Martin Paralič, Roman Jarina
• MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy Task: Context-Aware Visual Privacy Protection
  Atta Badii, Ahmed Al-Obaidi
• MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy Task: Geometrical Privacy Protection Tool
  Pavel Korshunov, Touradj Ebrahimi

Retrieving Diverse Social Images

Overview paper:

• Retrieving Diverse Social Images at MediaEval 2014: Challenge, Dataset and Evaluation
  Bogdan Ionescu, Adrian Popescu, Mihai Lupu, Alexandru Lucian Gînscă, Henning Müller

Working notes papers:

• A Unified Framework for Retrieving Diverse Social Images
  Maia Zaharieva, Patrick Schwab
• Retrieval of Diverse Images by Pre-filtering and Hierarchical Clustering
  Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Luca Piras, Giorgio Giacinto, Giulia Boato, Francesco De Natale
• DWS at MediaEval 2014 Retrieving Diverse Social Images: Approaches for Visual and Textual Runs
  Lydia Weiland, Simone Paolo Ponzetto
• UNED @ Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task
  Angel Castellanos, Ana García-Serrano, Juan Manuel Cigarrán Recuero
• TUW @ Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task 2014
  João R. M. Palotti, Navid Rekabsaz, Mihai Lupu, Allan Hanbury
• Ghent University-iMinds at MediaEval 2014 Diverse Images: Adaptive Clustering with Deep Features
  Baptist Vandersmissen, Abhineshwar Tomar, Fréderic Godin, Wesley De Neve, Rik Van de Walle
• PeRCeiVe Lab@UNICT at MediaEval 2014 Diverse Images: Random Forests for Diversity-based Clustering
  Concetto Spampinato, Simone Palazzo
• CEA LIST's Participation at the MediaEval 2014 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task
  Alexandru Lucian Gînscă, Adrian Popescu, Navid Rekabsaz
• LAPI @ 2014 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task: A Relevance Feedback Diversification Perspective
  Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuț Mironică, Anca-Livia Radu, Bogdan Ionescu
• MIRACL's participation at MediaEval 2014 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task
  Hanen Karamti, Mohamed Tmar, Faiez Gargouri
• Re-Ranking the Image Search Results for Relevance and Diversity in MediaEval 2014 Challenge
  Zsombor Paróczi, Bálint Fodor, Gábor Szűcs
• SocialSensor: Finding Diverse Images at MediaEval 2014
  Eleftherios Spyromitros-Xioufis, Symeon Papadopoulos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Ioannis Vlahavas
• Recod @ MediaEval 2014: Diverse Social Images Retrieval
  Rodrigo Tripodi Calumby, Vinícius Pereira Santana, Felipe Souza Cordeiro, Otávio Augusto Bizetto Penatti, Lin Tzy Li, Giovani Chiachia, Ricardo da Silva Torres
• Bilkent-RETINA at Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task of MediaEval 2014
  Mustafa Ilker Sarac, Pinar Duygulu

Search and Hyperlinking of Television Content

Overview paper:

• The Search and Hyperlinking Task at MediaEval 2014
  Maria Eskevich, Robin Aly, David N. Racca, Roeland Ordelman, Shu Chen, Gareth J.F. Jones

Working notes papers:

• DCLab at MediaEval2014 Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Zsombor Paróczi, Bálint Fodor, Gábor Szűcs
• IRISA and KUL at MediaEval 2014: Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Anca-Roxana Simon, Guillaume Gravier, Pascale Sébillot, Marie-Francine Moens
• JRS at Search and Hyperlinking of Television Content Task
  Werner Bailer, Harald Stiegler
• LinkedTV at MediaEval 2014 Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Hoang-An Le, Quoc-Minh Bui, Benoit Huet, Barbora Červenková, Jan Bouchner, Evlampios Apostolidis, Fotini Markatopoulou, Alexandros Pournaras, Vasileios Mezaris, Daniel Stein, S. Eickeler, M. Stadtschnitzer
• CUNI at MediaEval 2014 Search and Hyperlinking Task: Search Task Experiments
  Petra Galuščáková, Pavel Pecina
• DCU Linking Runs at MediaEval 2014: Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Shu Chen, Gareth J.F. Jones, Noel E. O'Connor
• CUNI at MediaEval 2014 Search and Hyperlinking Task: Visual and Prosodic Features in Hyperlinking
  Petra Galuščáková, Martin Kruliš, Jakub Lokoč, Pavel Pecina
• LACS System Analysis on Retrieval Models for the MediaEval 2014 Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Justin Chiu, Alexander Rudnicky
• DCU Search Runs at MediaEval 2014 Search and Hyperlinking
  David Nicolas Racca, Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones

Placing: Multimodal Location Estimation

Working notes papers:

• SocialSensor at MediaEval Placing Task 2014
  Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Giorgos Orfanidis, Symeon Papadopoulos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris
• USEMP at MediaEval Placing Task 2014
  Adrian Popescu, Symeon Papadopoulos, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
• UQ-DKE's Participation at MediaEval 2014 Placing Task
  Jiewei Cao, Zi Huang, Yang Yang, Heng Tao Shen
• TALP-UPC at MediaEval 2014 Placing Task: Combining Geographical Knowledge Bases and Language Models for Large-Scale Textual Georeferencing
  Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez
• Multimedia Geocoding: The RECOD 2014 Approach
  Lin Tzy Li, Otávio Augusto Bizetto Penatti, Jurandy Almeida, Giovani Chiachia, Rodrigo Tripodi Calumby, Pedro Ribeiro Mendes Júnior, Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette, Ricardo da Silva Torres
• The 2014 ICSI/TU Delft Location Estimation System
  Jaeyoung Choi, Xinchao Li

Brave New Tasks

C@merata: Question Answering on Classical Music Scores

Overview paper:

• The C@merata Task at MediaEval 2014: Natural Language Queries on Classical Music Scores
  Richard Sutcliffe, Tim Crawford, Chris Fox, Deane L. Root, Eduard Hovy

Working notes papers:

• OMDN at the MediaEval 2014 C@merata Task
  Donncha Ó Maidín
• The CLAS System at the MediaEval 2014 C@merata Task
  Stephen Wan
• Stravinsqi/De Montfort University at the MediaEval 2014 C@merata Task
  Tom Collins
• TCSL at the MediaEval 2014 C@merata Task
  Nikhil Kini
• UNLP at the MediaEval 2014 C@merata Task
  Kartik Asooja, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Paul Buitelaar

Event Synchronization Task: Synchronization of Multi-User Event Media (SEM)

Overview paper:

• Synchronization of Multi-User Event Media (SEM) at MediaEval 2014: Task Description, Datasets, and Evaluation
  Nicola Conci, Francesco De Natale, Vasileios Mezaris

Working notes papers:

• Multimodal Synchronization of Image Galleries
  Maia Zaharieva, Michael Riegler, Manfred Del Fabro
• CERTH at MediaEval 2014 Synchronization of Multi-User Event Media Task
  Konstantinos Apostolidis, Christina Papagiannopoulou, Vasileios Mezaris
• JRS at Event Synchronization Task
  Paweł Nowak, Marcus Thaler, Harald Stiegler, Werner Bailer
• Synchronizing Multi-User Photo Galleries with MRF
  Emanuele Sansone, Giulia Boato, Minh-Son Dao

Crowdsourcing: Crowdsorting Timed Comments about Music

Overview paper:

• Crowdsorting Timed Comments about Music: Foundations for a New Crowdsourcing Task
  Karthik Yadati, Pavala S.N. Shakthinathan Chandrasekaran Ayyanathan, Martha Larson

Working notes papers:

• Work Like a Bee - Taking Advantage of Diligent Crowdsourcing Workers
  Michael Riegler, Preben N. Olsen, Pål Halvorsen
• Detection of Musical Event Drop from Crowdsourced Annotations Using a Noisy Channel Model
  Naveen Kumar, Shrikanth S. Narayanan
• MediaEval 2014: A Multimodal Approach to Drop Detection in Electronic Dance Music
  Anna Aljanaki, Mohammad Soleymani, Frans Wiering, Remco C. Veltkamp