[visionlist] Call for Participation: TRECVID 2020

[Asad Anwar Butt]

Apologies for cross-posting
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Hello all,

This is a call for participation for TRECVID 2020. The TREC conference
series is sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) with additional support from other U.S. government agencies. The
goal of TRECVID is to encourage content-based information retrieval in
videos by providing a large test collection, uniform scoring procedures,
and a forum for organizations interested in comparing their results.

This year we are running 6 tasks:

- Ad-hoc Video Search (given a text query, return the relevant set of
videos)
- Instance Search  (given image examples of a specific person and action,
return the person doing the target action)
- Video to Text  (generate a text caption describing a short (max 10 sec)
video. Also there is an optional task to match videos to their
corresponding descriptions)
- Video Summarization  (generate a video summary of major life events for a
chosen actor in specific episode duration)
- Disaster Scene Description and Indexing  (classify scenes after natural
disaster events using predefined labels)
- Activities in Extended Videos    (activity detection from long videos
including human and/or object activities from surveillance cameras)

Please visit https://trecvid.nist.gov/ for more information.The detailed
call for participation is available at:
https://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tv2020/tv20.call.html

If you wish to participate, please apply at the following URL by 1 April:
https://ir.nist.gov/tv-submit.open/application.html

Only one application per team is required. Please only apply if you are
able and fully intend to complete the work for at least one task.

Please share and feel free to ask any questions. We look forward to a very
productive video analysis year!

Any questions can be sent to:
george.awad at nist.gov
asad.butt at nist.gov

Best Regards.
TRECVID 2020 Team
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