MediaEval 2015
Multimedia Benchmark Workshop

Table of Contents

Query by Example Search on Speech (QUESST)

Overview paper:

• Query by Example Search on Speech at Mediaeval 2015
  Igor Szoke, Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, Andi Buzo, Xavier Anguera, Florian Metze, Jorge Proenca, Martin Lojka, Xiao Xiong

Working notes papers:

• The NNI Query-by-Example System for MediaEval 2015
  Jingyong Hou, Van Tung Pham, Cheung-Chi Leung, Lei Wang, Haihua Xu, Hang Lv, Lei Xie, Zhonghua Fu, Chongjia Ni, Xiong Xiao, Hongjie Chen, Shaofei Zhang, Sining Sun, Yougen Yuan, Pengcheng Li, Tin Lay Nwe, Sunil Sivadas, Bin Ma, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li
• The IIT-B Query-by-Example System for MediaEval 2015
  Hitesh Tulsiani, Preeti Rao
• TUKE at MediaEval 2015 QUESST
  Jozef Vavrek, Peter Viszlay, Martin Lojka, Matúš Pleva, Jozef Juhár, Milan Rusko
• The SPL-IT-UC Query by Example Search on Speech system for MediaEval 2015
  Jorge Proença, Luis Castela, Fernando Perdigão
• ELiRF at MediaEval 2015: Query by Example Search on Speech Task (QUESST)
  Sergio Laguna, Marcos Calvo, Lluís-F. Hurtado, Emilio Sanchis
• GTM-UVigo Systems for the Query-by-Example Search on Speech Task at MediaEval 2015
  Paula Lopez-Otero, Laura Docio-Fernandez, Carmen Garcia-Mateo
• BUT QUESST 2015 System Description
  Miroslav Skácel, Igor Szöke
• NTU System at MediaEval 2015: Zero Resource Query by Example Spoken Term Detection using Deep and Recurrent Neural Networks
  Cheng-Tao Chung, Yang-de Chen
• SpeeD @ MediaEval 2015: Multilingual Phone Recognition Approach to Query by Example STD
  Alexandru Caranica, Andi Buzo, Horia Cucu, Corneliu Burileanu
• CUNY Systems for the Query-by-Example Search on Speech Task at MediaEval 2015
  Min Ma, Andrew Rosenberg

Multimodal Person Discovery in Broadcast TV

Overview paper:

• Multimodal Person Discovery in Broadcast TV at MediaEval 2015
  Johann Poignant, Hervé Bredin, Claude Barras

Working notes papers:

• Combining Audio Features and Visual I-Vector @ MediaEval 2015 Multimodal Person Discovery in Broadcast TV
  Fumito Nishi, Nakamasa Inoue, Koichi Shinoda
• LIG at MediaEval 2015 Multimodal Person Discovery in Broadcast TV Task
  Mateusz Budnik, Bahjat Safadi, Laurent Besacier, Georges Quénot, Ali Khodabakhsh, Cenk Demiroglu
• GTM-UVigo Systems for Person Discovery Task at MediaEval 2015
  Paula Lopez-Otero, Rosalía Barros, Laura Docio-Fernandez, Elisardo González-Agulla, José Luis Alba-Castro, Carmen Garcia-Mateo
• UPC System for the 2015 MediaEval Multimodal Person Discovery in Broadcast TV task
  Miquel India, David Varas, Veronica Vilaplana, Josep Ramon Morros, Javier Hernando
• LIMSI at MediaEval 2015: Person Discovery in Broadcast TV Task
  Johann Poignant, Hervé Bredin, Claude Barras
• PERCOLATTE : A Multimodal Person Discovery System in TV Broadcast for the Medieval 2015 Evaluation Campaign
  Meriem Bendris, Delphine Charlet, Gregory Senay, MinYoung Kim, Benoit Favre, Mickael Rouvier, Frederic Bechet, Géraldine Damnati
• SSIG and IRISA at Multimodal Person Discovery
  Cassio E. dos Santos Jr, Guillaume Gravier, William Robson Schwartz
• EUMSSI team at the MediaEval Person Discovery Challenge
  Nam Le, Di Wu, Sylvain Meignier, Jean-Marc Odobez

C@merata: Querying Musical Scores

Overview paper:

• The C@merata Task at MediaEval 2015: Natural Language Queries on Classical Music Scores
  Richard Sutcliffe, Chris Fox, Deane L. Root, Eduard Hovy, Richard Lewis

Working notes papers:

• CLAS at the MediaEval 2015 C@merata Task
  Stephen Wan
• UNLP at the MediaEval 2015 C@merata Task
  Kartik Asooja, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Paul Buitelaar
• OMDN at the MediaEval 2015 C@merata Task
  Donncha S. Ó Maidín
• DMUN at the MediaEval 2015 C@merata Task: The Stravinsqi Algorithm
  Andreas Katsiavalos, Tom Collins
• TNKG at the MediaEval 2015 C@merata Task
  Nikhil Kini

Affective Impact of Movies (including Violence)

Overview paper:

• The MediaEval 2015 Affective Impact of Movies Task
  Mats Sjöberg, Yoann Baveye, Hanli Wang, Vu Lam Quang, Bogdan Ionescu, Emmanuel Dellandréa, Markus Schedl, Claire-Hélène Demarty, Liming Chen

Working notes papers:

• MIC-TJU in MediaEval 2015 Affective Impact of Movies Task
  Yun Yi, Hanli Wang, Bowen Zhang, Jian Yu
• NII-UIT at MediaEval 2015 Affective Impact of Movies Task
  Vu Lam, Sang Phan, Duy-Dinh Le, Shin'ichi Satoh, Duc Anh Duong
• RUCMM at MediaEval 2015 Affective Impact of Movies Task: Fusion of Audio and Visual Cues
  Qin Jin, Xirong Li, Haibing Cao, Yujia Huo, Shuai Liao, Gang Yang, Jieping Xu
• TCS-ILAB - MediaEval 2015: Affective Impact of Movies and Violent Scene Detection
  Rupayan Chakraborty, Avinash Kumar Maurya, Meghna Pandharipande, Ehtesham Hassan, Hiranmay Ghosh, Sunil Kumar Kopparapu
• Fudan-Huawei at MediaEval 2015: Detecting Violent Scenes and Affective Impact in Movies with Deep Learning
  Qi Dai, Rui-Wei Zhao, Zuxuan Wu, Xi Wang, Zichen Gu, Wenhai Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang
• KIT at MediaEval 2015 - Evaluating Visual Cues for Affective Impact of Movies Task
  Marin Vlastelica P., Sergey Hayrapetyan, Makarand Tapaswi, Rainer Stiefelhagen
• UMons at MediaEval 2015 Affective Impact of Movies Task including Violent Scenes Detection
  Omar Seddati, Emre Kulah, Gueorgui Pironkov, Stéphane Dupont, Saïd Mahmoudi , Thierry Dutoit
• RECOD at MediaEval 2015: Affective Impact of Movies Task
  Daniel Moreira, Sandra Avila, Mauricio Perez, Daniel Moraes, Vanessa Testoni, Eduardo Valle, Siome Goldenstein, Anderson Rocha
• The ICL-TUM-PASSAU Approach for the MediaEval 2015 “Affective Impact of Movies” Task
  George Trigeorgis, Eduardo Coutinho, Fabien Ringeval, Erik Marchi, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Björn Schuller
• RFA at MediaEval 2015 Affective Impact of Movies Task: A Multimodal Approach
  Ionut Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Mats Sjöberg, Markus Schedl, Marcin Skowron

Emotion in Music

Overview paper:

• Emotion in Music Task at MediaEval 2015
  Anna Aljanaki, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Mohammmad Soleymani

Working notes papers:

• Affective Feature Extraction for Music Emotion Prediction
  Yang Liu, Yan Liu, Zhonglei Gu
• PKU-AIPL' Solution for MediaEval 2015 Emotion in Music Task
  Kang Cai, Wanyi Yang, Yao Cheng, Deshun Yang, Xiaoou Chen
• UNIZA System for the "Emotion in Music" task at MediaEval 2015
  Michal Chmulik, Igor Guoth, Miroslav Malik, Roman Jarina
• Time-continuous Estimation of Emotion in Music with Recurrent Neural Networks
  Thomas Pellegrini, Valentin Barrière
• Automatically Estimating Emotion in Music with Deep Long-Short Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks
  Eduardo Coutinho, George Trigeorgis, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Björn Schuller
• MediaEval 2015: Recurrent Neural Network Approach to Emotion in Music Tack
  Yu-Hao Chin, Jia-Ching Wang
• MediaEval 2015: JKU-Tinnitus Approach to Emotion in Music Task
  Martin Weber, Thomas Krismayer, Johannes Wöß, Lara Aigmüller, Patrick Birnzain
• Dynamic Music Emotion Recognition Using Kernel Bayes’ Filter
  Konstantin Markov, Tomoko Matsui
• Multi-Scale Approaches to the MediaEval 2015 ``Emotion in Music" Task
  Mingxing Xu, Xinxing Li, Haishu Xianyu, Jiashen Tian, Fanhang Meng, Wenxiao Chen
• MediaEval 2015: Music Emotion Recognition based on Feed-Forward Neural Network
  Braja Gopal Patra, Promita Maitra, Dipankar Das, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
• Predicting Affect in Music Using Regression Methods on Low Level Features
  Rahul Gupta, Shrikanth Narayanan
• MediaEval 2015: A Segmentation-based Approach to Continuous Emotion Tracking
  Anna Aljanaki, Frans Wiering, Remco Veltkamp

Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task

Overview paper:

• Retrieving Diverse Social Images at MediaEval 2015: Challenge, Dataset and Evaluation
  Bogdan Ionescu, Alexandru Lucian Gînscă, Bogdan Boteanu, Adrian Popescu, Mihai Lupu, Henning Müller

Working notes papers:

• USEMP: Finding Diverse Images at MediaEval 2015
  Eleftherios Spyromitros-Xioufis, Adrian Popescu, Symeon Papadopoulos, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
• UPC-UB-STP @ MediaEval 2015 Diversity Task: Iterative Reranking of Relevant Images
  Aniol Lidon, Marc Bolaños, Markus Seidl, Xavier Giró-i-Nieto , Petia Radeva, Matthias Zeppelzauer
• ETH-CVL @ MediaEval 2015: Learning Objective Functions for Improved Image Retrieval
  Sai Srivatsa Ravindranath, Michael Gygli, Luc Van Gool
• LAPI @ 2015 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task: A Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Diversification Perspective
  Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuț Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu
• Multimodal-based Diversified Summarization in Social Image Retrieval
  Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Giulia Boato, Francesco G. B. De Natale, Luca Piras, Giorgio Giacinco, Franco Tuveri, Manuela Angioni
• UNED-UV @ Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task
  Angel Castellanos, Xaro Benavent, Ana García-Serrano, Esther de Ves, Juan Cigarrán
• Retrieving Social Images using Relevance Filtering and Diverse Selection
  Taruna Agrawal, Rahul Gupta, Shrikanth Narayanan
• OHSU @ MediaEval 2015: Adapting Textual Techniques to Multimedia Search
  Shiran Dudy, Steven Bedrick
• Recod @ MediaEval 2015: Diverse Social Images Retrieval
  Rodrigo T. Calumby, Iago B. A. do C. Araujo, Vinícius P. Santana, Javier A. V. Munoz, Otávio A. B. Penatti, Lin T. Li, Jurandy Almeida, Giovani Chiachia, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Ricardo da S. Torres
• Retrieving Relevant and Diverse Image from Social Media Images
  Xi Chen, Haokun Liu, Zhihong Deng, Yunlun Yang
• MIS @ Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task 2015
  Maia Zaharieva, Lukas Diem
• DCLab at MediaEval 2015 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task
  Zsombor Paróczi, Máté Kis-Király, Bálint Fodor
• Imcube @ MediaEval 2015 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task: Multimodal Filtering and Re-ranking
  Sebastian Schmiedeke, Pascal Kelm, Lutz Goldmann
• TUW @ MediaEval 2015 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task
  Serwah Sabetghadam, João Palotti, Navid Rekabsaz, Mihai Lupu, Allan Hanbury

Placing: Multimodal Location Estimation

Overview paper:

• The Placing Task at MediaEval 2015
  Jaeyoung Choi, Claudia Hauff, Olivier Van Laere, Bart Thomee

Working notes papers:

• Imcube @ MediaEval 2015 Placing Task: Hierarchical Approach for Geo-referencing Large-Scale Datasets
  Pascal Kelm, Sebastian Schmiedeke, Lutz Goldmann
• Geo_ML @ MediaEval Placing Task 2015
  Nghia Duong-Trung, Martin Wistuba, Lucas Rego Drumond, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
• RECOD @ Placing Task of MediaEval 2015
  Lin Tzy Li, Javier A.V. Muñoz, Jurandy Almeida, Rodrigo T. Calumby, Otávio A. B. Penatti, Ícaro C. Dourado, Keiller Nogueira, Pedro R. Mendes Júnior, Luís A. M. Pereira, Daniel C. G. Pedronette, Jefersson A. dos Santos, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Ricardo da S. Torres
• CERTH/CEA LIST at MediaEval Placing Task 2015
  Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Adrian Popescu, Symeon Papadopoulos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris
• JKU-Satellite at MediaEval 2015: An Intuitive Approach to Locate Single Pictures Within a Session
  Michael Mayr, Thomas Hintersteiner, Michael Weingartner, Florian Schröckeneder, Peter Knees, Markus Schedl

Synchronization of Multi-User Event Media

Overview paper:

• Synchronization of Multi-User Event Media at MediaEval 2015: Task Description, Datasets, and Evaluation
  Nicola Conci, Vasileios Mezaris, Francesco De Natale, Mike Matton

Working notes papers:

• CERTH at MediaEval 2015 Synchronization of Multi-User Event Media Task
  Konstantinos Apostolidis, Vasileios Mezaris
• JRS at Synchronization of Multi-user Event Media Task
  Hannes Fassold, Harald Stiegler, Felix Lee, Werner Bailer

Search and Anchoring in Video Archives

Overview paper:

• SAVA at MediaEval 2015: Search and Anchoring in Video Archives
  Maria Eskevich, Robin Aly, Roeland Ordelman, David N. Racca, Shu Chen, Gareth J.F. Jones

Working notes papers:

• Exploring Microblog Activity for the Prediction of Hyperlink Anchors in Television Broadcasts
  Raynor Vliegendhart, Cynthia C.S. Liem, Martha Larson
• CUNI at MediaEval 2015 Search and Anchoring in Video Archives: Anchoring via Information Retrieval
  Petra Galuščáková, Pavel Pecina
• IRISA at MediaEval 2015: Search and Anchoring in Video Archives Task
  Anca-Roxana Şimon, Guillaume Gravier, Pascale Sébillot
• EURECOM @ SAVA2015: Visual Features for Multimedia Search
  Maria Eskevich, Benoit Huet

Brave New Tasks

Verifying Multimedia Use

Overview paper:

• Verifying Multimedia Use at MediaEval 2015
  Christina Boididou, Katerina Andreadou, Symeon Papadopoulos, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Giulia Boato, Michael Riegler, Yiannis Kompatsiaris

Working notes papers:

• Extracting Attributed Verification and Debunking Reports from Social Media: MediaEval-2015 Trust and Credibility Analysis of Image and Video
  Stuart E. Middleton
• MCG-ICT at MediaEval 2015: Verifying Multimedia Use with a Two-Level Classification Model
  Zhiwei Jin, Juan Cao, Yazi Zhang, Yongdong Zhang
• The CERTH-UNITN Participation @ Verifying Multimedia Use 2015
  Christina Boididou, Symeon Papadopoulos, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Giulia Boato, Yiannis Kompatsiaris

DroneProtect: Mini-drone Video Privacy Task

Overview paper:

• Overview of the MediaEval 2015 Drone Protect Task
  Atta Badii, Pavel Koshunov, Hamid Oudi, Touradj Ebrahimi, Tomas Piatrik, Volker Eiselein, Natacha Ruchaud, Christian Fedorczak, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Diego Fernandez Vazquez

Working notes papers:

• Imcube @ MediaEval 2015 DroneProtect Task: Reversible Masking using Steganography
  Sebastian Schmiedeke, Pascal Kelm, Lutz Goldmann
• Privacy Protection Filter Using StegoScrambling in Video Surveillance
  Natacha Ruchaud, Jean-Luc Dugelay
• MediaEval 2015 Drone Protect Task: Privacy Protection in Surveillance Systems Using False Coloring
  Serdar Çiftçi, Pavel Korshunov, Ahmet Oğuz Akyüz, Touradj Ebrahimi

MediaEval Letters

Overview paper:

• Recording and Analyzing Benchmarking Results: The Aims of the MediaEval Working Notes Proceedings
  Martha Larson, Gareth Jones, Bogdan Ionescu, Mohammad Soleymani, Guillaume Gravier

Working notes papers:

• Evaluating Search and Hyperlinking: An Example of the Design, Test, Refine Cycle for Metric Development
  David N. Racca, Gareth J.F. Jones
• Introduction to a Task on Context of Experience: Recommending Videos Suiting a Watching Situation
  Michael Riegler, Martha Larson, Concetto Spampinato, Jonas Markussen, Pål Halvorsen, Carsten Griwodz