Retrieving diverse social images at MediaEval 2013: Objectives, dataset and evaluation

B. Ionescu (1) , M. Menéndez (2) , H. Müller (3) , A. Popescu (4)

1 LAPI - Laboratoire d'Analyse et Traitement d'Images
2 DISI - Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (University of Trento )
3 HES-SO Valais-Wallis - Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale Valais-Wallis
4 DIASI - Département Intelligence Ambiante et Systèmes Interactifs

This paper provides an overview of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images task that is organized as part of the MediaEval 2013 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. The task addresses the problem of result diversification in the context of social photo retrieval. We present the task challenges, the proposed data set and ground truth, the required participant runs and the evaluation metrics.

Keywords: Ground truth; Data set; Evaluation metrics; Social images; Photo retrieval

Domains: Computer Science [cs]

B. Ionescu, M. Menéndez, H. Müller, A. Popescu. Retrieving diverse social images at MediaEval 2013: Objectives, dataset and evaluation. 2013 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, MediaEval 2013, Oct 2013, Barcelona, Spain. ⟨cea-01844699⟩