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International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding

October 21, 2020
Author(s)
Keith Curtis, George Awad, Shahzad K. Rajput, Ian Soboroff
This is the introduction paper to the International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding. In recent years, a growing trend towards working on understanding videos (in particular movies) in a more deeper level started to motivate researchers working in

V3C -- a Research Video Collection

January 10, 2019
Author(s)
George M. Awad, Asad A. Butt, Luca Rossetto, Heiko Schuldt
With the widespread use of smartphones as recording devices and the massive growth in bandwidth, the number and volume of video collections has increased significantly in the last years. This poses novel challenges to the management of these large-scale

Instance Search Retrospective with Focus on TRECVID

April 5, 2017
Author(s)
George M. Awad, Wessel Kraaij, Paul Over, Shin'ichi Satoh
This paper presents an overview of the Video Instance Search benchmark which was run over a pe- riod of 6 years (2010-2015) as part of the TREC Video Retrieval (TRECVID) workshop series. The main contributions of the paper include i) an examination of the

TRECVID 2016 Video to Text Description NEW Showcase/Pilot Task Overview

April 5, 2017
Author(s)
George M. Awad
A new pilot task was introduced and evaluated during the TRECIVD 2016 workshop cycle. The task evaluates methods that provides solutions to describe short videos into natural text descriptions and also methods that matches short videos to short english

TRECVid Semantic Indexing of Video: A 6-Year Retrospective

July 1, 2016
Author(s)
George M. Awad, Cees Snoek, Alan Smeaton, Georges Quenot
Semantic indexing, or assigning semantic tags to video samples, is a key component for content-based access to video documents and collections. The Semantic Indexing task has been run at TRECVid from 2010 to 2015 with the support of NIST and the Quaero

Content-Based Video Copy Detection Benchmarking at TRECVID

June 1, 2014
Author(s)
George M. Awad, Paul D. Over, Wessel Kraaij
This paper presents an overview of the video copy detection benchmark which was run over a period of 4 years (2008-2011) as part of the TREC Video Retrieval (TRECVID) workshop series. The main contributions of the paper include i) an examination of the

TRECVID 2013 -- An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics

May 5, 2014
Author(s)
Paul D. Over, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Gregory A. Sanders, David M. Joy, Martial Michel, George M. Awad, Alan Smeaton, Wessel Kraaij, Georges Quenot
TRECVID 2013 was a TREC-style video analysis and retrieval evaluation, the goal of which remains to promote progress in content-based exploitation of digital video via open, metrics-based evaluation. Over the last ten years this effort has yielded a better

TRECVID 2011 -- An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics

May 8, 2012
Author(s)
Paul D. Over, George M. Awad, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Brian Antonishek, Martial Michel, Alan Smeaton, Wessel Kraaij, Georges Quenot
The TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) 2011 was a TREC-style video analysis and retrieval evaluation, the goal of which remains to promote progress in content-based exploitation of digital video via open, metrics-based evaluation. Over the last ten

TRECVID 2010 - An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics

April 15, 2011
Author(s)
Paul D. Over, George M. Awad, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Brian Antonishek, Martial Michel, Alan Smeaton, Wessel Kraaij, Georges Quenot
The TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) 2010 was a TREC-style video analysis and retrieval evaluation, the goal of which remains to promote progress in content-based exploitation of digital video via open, metrics-based evaluation. Over the last 10

TRECVID 2009 -- Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms and Metrics

April 30, 2010
Author(s)
Paul D. Over, George M. Awad, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Martial Michel, Alan Smeaton, Wessel Kraaij
The TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) 2009 was a TREC-style video analysis and retrieval evaluation, the goal of which was to promote progress in content-based exploitation of digital video via open, metrics-based evaluation. 63 teams from various

Creating a web-scale video collection for research

October 23, 2009
Author(s)
Paul D. Over, George M. Awad, Alan Smeaton, Colum Foley, James Lanagan
This paper begins by considering a number of important design questions for a web-scale, widely available, multimedia test collection intended to support long-term scientific evaluation and comparison of content-based video analysis and exploitation

The TRECVid 2008 BBC Rushes Summarization Evaluation

May 28, 2009
Author(s)
Paul D. Over, Alan Smeaton, George M. Awad
This paper describes an evaluation of automatic video summarization systems run on rushes from several BBC dramatic series. It was carried out under the auspices of the TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVid) as a followup to the 2007 video summarization