An ever increasing part of communication between persons involve the use of pictures, due
to the cheap availability of powerful cameras on smartphones, and the cheap availability of …

The amount of user-generated multimedia content (UGC) has increased rapidly in recent
years due to the ubiquitous availability of smartphones, digital cameras, and affordable …

This paper provides an overview of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images task that is
organized as part of the Media-Eval 2015 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation …

Despite the increasing number of successful related work-shops and panels, lifelogging has
rarely been the subject of a rigorous comparative benchmarking exercise. Following the …

Image retrieval has been an active research domain for over 30 years and historically it has
focused primarily on precision as an evaluation criterion. Similar to text retrieval, where the …

In this article, we present a novel framework that can produce a visual description of a tourist
attraction by choosing the most diverse pictures from community-contributed datasets, which …

In this paper we introduce a new dataset, Div150Multi, that was designed to support shared
evaluation of diversification techniques in different areas of social media photo retrieval and …

User requirements for result diversification in image retrieval have been increasing with the
explosion of image resources. Result diversification requires that image retrieval systems …

Lifelog data provide potential insight analysis and understanding about people in their daily
activities. However, it is still a challenging problem to index lifelog data efficiently and to …

There is information explosion in this era; documents of all genres are available at the tip of
our hands. The proliferation of digital data like images, audios and videos both on the …