6th Video Browser Showdown 2017
Submission deadline: 16. September 2016
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Dates: 04. January 2017 -04. January 2017
More information: http://www.videobrowsershowdown.org/
The Video Browser Showdown (VBS) is an annual live video search competition, where international researchers evaluate and demonstrate the efficiency of their interactive video search tools. The Video Browser Showdown is a special session at the International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM), where it started in 2012. Participating teams first present the details of their systems and then perform several interactive video search tasks with different modalities.
VBS2017 will be organized as a side event to the MMM Welcome Reception on January 4, 2017. It will be a moderated session where participants solve Known-Item Search (KIS) tasks and Ad-hoc Video Search (AVS) tasks (looking for segments of video containing persons, objects, activities, locations, etc. and combinations of the former). The tasks are issued as live presentation of scenes of interest, either as a visual 20 seconds clip (randomly selected), or as a textual description of such a random clip. The goal is to find correct segments as fast as possible and submit the segment description (video id and frame number) to the VBS server, which evaluates if the finding was correct. For some tasks there will be only one single correct result, for others there will be a few correct results that should all be found.