K-Space at TRECVID 2008

Wilkins, P. et al. (2008) K-Space at TRECVID 2008. Working Paper. NIST.

Abstract

In this paper we describe K-Space’s participation in TRECVid 2008 in the interactive search task. For 2008 the K-Space group performed one of the largest interactive video information retrieval experiments conducted in a laboratory setting. We had three institutions participating in a multi-site multi-system experiment. In total 36 users participated, 12 each from Dublin City University (DCU, Ireland), University of Glasgow (GU, Scotland) and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI, the Netherlands). Three user interfaces were developed, two from DCU which were also used in 2007 as well as an interface from GU. All interfaces leveraged the same search service. Using a latin squares arrangement, each user conducted 12 topics, leading in total to 6 runs per site, 18 in total. We officially submitted for evaluation 3 of these runs to NIST with an additional expert run using a 4th system. Our submitted runs performed around the median. In this paper we will present an overview of the search system utilized, the experimental setup and a preliminary analysis of our results.

• Item Type: Research Reports or Papers (Working Paper)
• Additional Information: TRECVID 2008: Text REtrieval Conference TRECVid Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 17-18 Nov 2008
• Status: Published
• Refereed: No
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Hopfgartner, Dr Frank and Hannah, Mr David and Goyal, Mr Anuj and Halvey, Dr Martin and Villa, Dr Robert
• Authors: Wilkins, P., Byrne, D., Jones, G. J. F., Lee, H., Keenan, G., McGuinness, K., O'Connor, N. E., O'Hare, N., Smeaton, A. F., Adamek, T., Troncy, R., Amin, A., Benmokhtar, R., Dumont, E., Huet, B., Merialdo, B., Tolias, G., Spyrou, E., Avrithis, Y., Papadopoulous, G. T., Mezaris, V., Kompatsiaris, I., Moerzinger, R., Schallauer, P., Bailer, W., Chandramouli, K., Izquierdo, E., Goldmann, L., Haller, M., Samour, A., Cobet, A., Sikora, T., Praks, P., Hannah, D., Halvey, M., Hopfgartner, F., Villa, R., Punitha, P., Goyal, A., and Jose, J. M.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Information Studies
• Publisher: NIST
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2008 The Authors