VideOlympics: Real-Time Evaluation of Multimedia Retrieval Systems

Author

Snoek, Cees G M ; Worring, Marcel ; de Rooij, Ork ; Van de Sande, Koen E A ; Yan, Rong ; Hauptmann, Alexander G.

Author_Institution

Amsterdam Univ., Amsterdam

Volume

15

Issue

1

fYear

2008

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

91

Abstract

The first VideOlympics brings content-based analysis to the archive and allows for many-to- many communication between video search engines and their audience It was a great Success. The VideOlympics provided the excitement of a competition without the associated stress on the participants. For the first time, the audience was able to compare different multimedia retrieval systems on the same tasks and see how they performed with unrehearsed topics. Many audience members felt they understood the technology´s capabilities after seeing it in live action and in several system variations.

Keywords

content-based retrieval; information retrieval system evaluation; search engines; video retrieval; VideOlympics multimedia retrieval system; content-based analysis; real-time system evaluation; video search engine; Auditory system; Content based retrieval; Information retrieval; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Prototypes; Real time systems; Search engines; Standards publication; Videoconference; VideOlympics; multimedia retrieval systems; video search;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

MultiMedia, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-986X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MMUL.2008.21

Filename

4476279