TRECVID
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The TRECVID evaluation meetings are on-going series of workshop
s 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 the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity (IARPA) of the United States Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). 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.
. The founding organisers consisted of the coordinators:
and the international advisory committee:
and Paul Over providing support and guidance at NIST.
Workshop
A workshop is a room or building which provides both the area and tools that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods...
s focusing on a list of different information retrieval
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
(IR) research areas in content based retrieval of video. It is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity (IARPA) of the United States Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). 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.
Origin
TRECVID was founded in 2003 as an independent evaluation/workshop from TRECTREC
TREC may refer to:* Techniques de Randonnée Équestre de Compétition or Trec, an equestrian discipline* Text REtrieval Conference, an on-going series of workshops co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S...
. The founding organisers consisted of the coordinators:
- Alan SmeatonAlan SmeatonProfessor Alan Smeaton is an author and academic at Dublin City University. Among his accomplishments are founding TRECVID, the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and being a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering in 2002 and the DCU Educational Trust...
(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 HauptmannAlex HauptmannAlexander G. Hauptmann is an American Systems Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been the leader of the Informedia Digital Library which has made seminal strides in multimedia information retrieval and won best paper awards at major conferences...
(CMU) - Annemieke de Jong (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)
- Michael LewMichael LewProf. Michael S. Lew is a scientist in multimedia information search and retrieval at Leiden University, Netherlands. He has published over 7 books and 100 scientific articles in the areas of multimedia search, computer vision, human computer interaction, and information retrieval...
(Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science) - Georges Quénot (LIGLigLig is a dispersed settlement in the hills to the northwest of Kanal in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It lies on the border with Italy and is made up of the smaller settlements of Lig, Kostanjevica and Strmec as well as a few mote farmsteads in the Kanalski Kolovrat range.The Parish Church in...
, Grenoble) - John Smith (IBM)
- Richard Wright (BBC)
and Paul Over providing support and guidance at NIST.