TRECVID
The TRECVID evaluation meetings are on-going series of workshops focusing on a list of different information retrieval (IR) research areas in content based retrieval of video. It is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) center of the U.S. Department Of Defense. The goal of the workshop is to encourage research in information retrieval by Providing a large test collection, uniform scoring procedures, and a forum for organizations interested in comparing their results.
TRECVID is arguably the most influential dedicated video retrieval workshop worldwide.
Origin
TRECVID was founded in 2003 as an independent evaluation/workshop from TREC. The founding organisers consisted of the coordinators:
- Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University)
- Wessel Kraaij (TNO-ICT)
and the international advisory committee:
- John Eakins (University of Northumbria at Newcastle)
- Peter Enser (University of Brighton)
- Alex Hauptmann (CMU)
- Annemieke de Jong (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)
- Michael Lew (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science)
- Georges Quenot (CLIPS-IMAG Laboratory)
- John Smith (IBM)
- Richard Wright (BBC)
and Paul Over providing support and guidance at NIST.
References
Smeaton, A. F., Over, P., and Kraaij, W. 2006. "Evaluation campaigns and TRECVid". In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (Santa Barbara, California, USA, October 26 - 27, 2006). MIR '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 321-330.
Participation
The conference is made up a varied, international group of researchers and developers. TRECVID 2006 was composed of 54 teams from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia.