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# MediaEval 2014
Multimedia Benchmark Workshop

### Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2014 Workshop

### Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, October 16-17, 2014.

Edited by

### Martha Larson (1)
Bogdan Ionescu (2)
Xavier Anguera (3)
Maria Eskevich (4)
Pavel Korshunov (5)
Markus Schedl (6)
Mohammad Soleymani (7)
Georgios Petkos (8)
Richard Sutcliffe (9)
Jaeyoung Choi (10)
Gareth J.F. Jones (4)

(1) Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
(2) University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
(3) Telefonica Research, Spain
(4) Dublin City University, Ireland
(5) EPFL, Switzerland
(6) Johannes Kepler University, Austria
(7) University of Geneva, Switzerland
(8) CERTH/ITI, Greece
(9) University of Essex, UK
(10) ICSI, USA

## 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

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