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2025 NIST GenAI (Pilot) Evaluation Plan for Image Discriminators

March 14, 2025
Author(s)
George Awad, Hariharan Iyer, Seungmin Seo, Peter Fontana, Yooyoung Lee
In this NIST Generative AI (GenAI) program, we invite and encourage participating teams from academia, industry, and other research labs to support research in Generative AI. GenAI is an evaluation series that provides a platform for testing and evaluation

2025 NIST GenAI (Pilot) Evaluation Plan for Image Generators

March 14, 2025
Author(s)
George Awad, Hariharan Iyer, Seungmin Seo, Peter Fontana, Yooyoung Lee
In this NIST Generative AI (GenAI) program, we invite and encourage participating teams from academia, industry, and other research labs to support research in Generative AI. GenAI is an evaluation series that provides a platform for testing and evaluation

2024 NIST Generative AI (GenAI): Data Creation Specification for Text-to-Text (T2T) Generators

April 1, 2024
Author(s)
Yooyoung Lee, George Awad, Asad Butt, Lukas Diduch, Kay Peterson, Seungmin Seo, Ian Soboroff, Hariharan Iyer
Generator (G) teams will be tested on their system ability to generate content that is indistinguishable from human-generated content. For the pilot study, the evaluation will help determine strengths and weaknesses in their approaches including insights

2024 NIST Generative AI (GenAI): Evaluation Plan for Text-to-Text (T2T) Discriminators

April 1, 2024
Author(s)
Yooyoung Lee, George Awad, Asad Butt, Lukas Diduch, Kay Peterson, Seungmin Seo, Ian Soboroff, Hariharan Iyer
Generator (G) teams will be tested on their system's ability to generate content that is indistinguishable from human-generated content. For the pilot study, the evaluation will help determine strengths and weaknesses in their approaches including insights

Evaluating Multimedia and Language Tasks

May 24, 2021
Author(s)
Ian Soboroff, George Awad, Asad Butt, Keith Curtis
Evaluating information access tasks, including textual and multimedia search, question answering, and understanding has been the core mission of NIST's Retrieval Group since 1989. The TRECVID Evaluations of Multimedia Access began in 2001 with a goal of

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