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# MediaEval 2012
Multimedia Benchmark Workshop

### Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2012 Workshop,

### Santa Croce in Fossabanda, Pisa, Italy, October 4-5, 2012.

Edited by

### Martha A. Larson (1)
Sebastian Schmiedeke (2)
Pascal Kelm (2)
Adam Rae (3)
Vasileios Mezaris (4)
Tomas Piatrik (5)
Mohammad Soleymani (6)
Florian Metze (7)
Gareth J.F. Jones (8)

(1) Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
(2) Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
(3) Yahoo! Research, Spain
(4) ITI - CERTH, Greece
(5) Queen Mary University of London, UK
(6) Imperial College, London, UK
(7) Carnegie Mellon University, USA
(8) Dublin City University, Ireland

# Table of Contents

## Placing Task

#### Overview paper:

- Working Notes for the Placing Task at MediaEval 2012
  Adam Rae, Pascal Kelm

#### Working notes papers:

- How INRIA/IRISA identifies Geographic Location of a Video
  Michele Trevisiol, Jonathan Delhumeau, Hervé Jégou, Guillaume Gravier
- A Multimodal Approach for Video Geocoding
  Lin Tzy Li, Jurandy Almeida, Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette, Otávio Penatti, Ricardo da S. Torres
- The 2012 ICSI/Berkeley Video Location Estimation System
  Jaeyoung Choi, Venkatesan Ekambaram, Gerald Friedland, Kannan Ramchandran
- CEA LIST's Participation at MediaEval 2012 Placing Task
  Adrian Popescu, Nicolas Ballas
- Ghent and Cardiff University at the 2012 Placing Task
  Olivier Van Laere, Steven Schockaert, Jonathan Quinn, Frank Langbein, Bart Dhoedt
- Preliminary Exploration of the Use of Geographical Information for Content-based Geo-tagging of Social Video
  Xinchao Li, Claudia Hauff, Martha A. Larson, Alan Hanjalic
- How Spatial Segmentation improves the Multimodal Geo-Tagging
  Pascal Kelm, Sebastian Schmiedeke, Thomas Sikora

## Social Event Detection

#### Overview paper:

- Social Event Detection at MediaEval 2012: Challenges, Dataset and Evaluation
  Symeon Papadopoulos, Emmanouil Schinas, Vasileios Mezaris, Raphaël Troncy, Ioannis Kompatsiaris

#### Working notes papers:

- A Generic Approach for Social Event Detection in Large Photo Collections
  Matthias Zeppelzauer, Maia Zaharieva, Christian Breiteneder
- Event Detection via LDA for the MediaEval2012 SED Task
  Konstantinos N. Vavliakis, Fani A. Tzima, Pericles A. Mitkas
- CERTH @ MediaEval 2012 Social Event Detection Task
  Emmanouil Schinas, Georgios Petkos, Symeon Papadopoulos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris
- QMUL @ MediaEval 2012: Social Event Detection in Collaborative Photo Collections
  Markus Brenner, Ebroul Izquierdo
- The Watershed-based Social Events Detection Method with Support from External Data Sources
  Minh-Son Dao, Truc-Vien Nguyen, Giulia Boato, Francesco G.B. De Natale

## Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detection Task

#### Overview paper:

- The MediaEval 2012 Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detection
  Claire-Helene Demarty, Cedric Penet, Guillaume Gravier, Mohammad Soleymani

#### Working notes papers:

- NII, Japan at MediaEval 2012 Violent Scenes Detection Affect Task
  Vu Lam, Duy-Dinh Le, Sang-Phan Le, Shin'ichi Satoh, Duc Anh Duong
- Violent Scenes Detection with Large, Brute-forced Acoustic and Visual Feature Sets
  Florian Eyben, Felix Weninger, Nicolas Lehment, Gerhard Rigoll, Björn Schuller
- Technicolor/INRIA/Imperial College London at the MediaEval 2012 Violent Scene Detection Task
  Cedric Penet, Claire-Helene Demarty, Mohammad Soleymani, Guillaume Gravier, Patrick Gros
- The Shanghai-Hongkong Team at MediaEval2012: Violent Scene Detection Using Trajectory-based Features
  Yu-Gang Jiang, Qi Dai, Chun Chet Tan, Xiangyang Xue, Chong-Wah Ngo
- DAI Lab at MediaEval 2012 Affect Task: The Detection of Violent Scenes using Affective Features
  Esra Açar, Sahin Albayrak
- ARF @ MediaEval 2012: An Uninformed Approach to Violence Detection in Hollywood Movies
  Jan Schlüter, Bogdan Ionescu, Ionuţ Mironică, Markus Schedl
- LIG at MediaEval 2012 affect task: use of a generic method
  Nadia Derbas, Franck Thollard, Bahjat Safadi, Georges Quénot
- Violence Detection in Video by Large Scale Multi-Scale Local Binary Pattern Dynamics
  Vincent Martin, Hervé Glotin, Sébastien Paris, Xanadu Halkias, Jean-Marc Prevot

## Spoken Web Search Task

#### Overview paper:

- The Spoken Web Search Task
  Florian Metze, Etienne Barnard, Marelie Davel, Charl van Heerden, Xavier Anguera, Guillaume Gravier, Nitendra Rajput

#### Working notes papers:

- CUHK System for the Spoken Web Search task at Mediaeval 2012
  Haipeng Wang, Tan Lee
- The TUM Cumulative DTW Approach for the Mediaeval 2012 Spoken Web Search Task
  Cyril Joder, Felix Weninger, Martin Wöllmer, Björn Schuller
- ARF @ MediaEval 2012: A Romanian ASR-based Approach to Spoken Term Detection
  Andi Buzo, Horia Cucu, Mihai Safta, Bogdan Ionescu, Corneliu Burileanu
- The L2F Spoken Web Search system for Mediaeval 2012
  Alberto Abad, Ramón F. Astudillo
- TUKE MediaEval 2012: Spoken Web Search using DTW and Unsupervised SVM
  Jozef Vavrek, Matus Pleva, Jozef Juhar
- GTTS System for the Spoken Web Search Task at MediaEval 2012
  Amparo Varona, Mikel Penagarikano, Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, German Bordel, Mireia Diez
- BUT2012 Approaches for Spoken Web Search - MediaEval 2012
  Igor Szoke, Michal Fapšo, Karel Veselý
- The JHU-HLTCOE Spoken Web Search System for MediaEval 2012
  Aren Jansen, Benjamin Van Durme, Pascal Clark
- Telefonica Research System for the Spoken Web Search task at Mediaeval 2012
  Xavier Anguera

## Visual Privacy Task

#### Overview paper:

- Overview of MediaEval 2012 Visual Privacy Task
  Atta Badii, Tomas Piatrik, Mathieu Einig, Chattun Lallah

#### Working notes papers:

- MediaEval 2012 Visual Privacy Task: Privacy, Intelligibility through Pixellation and Edge Detection
  Atta Badii, Mathieu Einig
- MediaEval 2012 Visual Privacy Task: Applying Transform-domain Scrambling to Automatically Detected Faces
  Pavel Korshunov, Aleksei Triastcyn, Touradj Ebrahimi
- MediaEval 2012: Scrambling Faces for Flexible Privacy Preservation using Image Background Self-similarities
  Claudia Araimo, Jean-Luc Dugelay

## Tagging Task

#### Overview paper:

- Overview of the MediaEval 2012 Tagging Task
  Sebastian Schmiedeke, Christoph Kofler, Isabelle Ferrané

#### Working notes papers:

- ARF @ MediaEval 2012: Multimodal Video Classification
  Bogdan Ionescu, Ionuţ Mironică, Klaus Seyerlehner, Peter Knees, Jan Schlüter, Markus Schedl, Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo, Patrick Lambert
- TUB @ MediaEval 2012 Tagging Task: Feature Selection Methods for Bag-of-(visual)-Words Approaches
  Sebastian Schmiedeke, Pascal Kelm, Thomas Sikora
- KIT at MediaEval 2012 – Content–based Genre Classification with Visual Cues
  Tomas Semela, Makarand Tapaswi, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Rainer Stiefelhagen
- TUD at MediaEval 2012 genre tagging task: Multi-modality video categorization with one-vs-all classifiers
  Peng Xu, Yangyang Shi, Martha A. Larson
- MediaEval 2012 Tagging Task: Prediction based on One Best List and Confusion Networks
  Yangyang Shi, Martha A. Larson, Pascal Wiggers, Catholijn M. Jonker
- UNICAMP-UFMG at MediaEval 2012: Genre Tagging Task
  Jurandy Almeida, Thiago Salles, Éder Martins, Otávio Penatti, Ricardo da S. Torres, Marcos Gonçalves, Jussara Almeida

## Brave New Tasks

### User Account Matching

#### Overview paper:

- Brave New Task: User Account Matching
  Claudia Hauff, Gerald Friedland

### Musiclef Multimodal Music Tagging

#### Overview paper:

- Brave New Task: MusiClef Multimodal Music Tagging
  Cynthia C. S. Liem, Nicola Orio, Geoffroy Peeters, Markus Schedl

#### Working notes papers:

- Multimodal Automatic Tagging of Music Titles using Aggregation of Estimators
  Kaoutar El Ghali, Adil El Ghali, Charles Tijus

### Search and Hyperlinking

#### Overview paper:

- Search and Hyperlinking Task at MediaEval 2012
  Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones, Shu Chen, Robin Aly, Roeland Ordelman, Martha A. Larson

#### Working notes papers:

- UTwente does Brave New Tasks for MediaEval 2012: Searching and Hyperlinking
  Danish Nadeem, Robin Aly, Roeland Ordelman
- Ghent University-IBBT at MediaEval 2012 Search and Hyperlinking: Semantic Similarity using Named Entities
  Tom De Nies, Pedro Debevere, Davy Van Deursen, Wesley De Neve, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle
- CUNI at MediaEval 2012 Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Petra Galušcáková, Pavel Pecina
- DCU Search Runs at MediaEval 2012: Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones
- IRISA at MediaEval 2012: Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Camille Guinaudeau, Guillaume Gravier, Pascale Sébillot
- DCU Linking Runs at MediaEval 2012 Search and Hyperlinking Task
  Shu Chen, Gareth J.F. Jones, Noel E. O'Connor

25-Oct-2012: submitted by Sebastian Schmiedeke
25-Oct-2012: published on CEUR-WS.org