Recently integrating video foundation models and large language models to build a video
understanding system can overcome the limitations of specific pre-defined vision tasks. Yet …

This paper presents the results of the premier shared task organized alongside the
Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) 2019. Participants were asked to build machine …

This paper presents the results of the news translation task, the multilingual low-resource
translation for Indo-European languages, the triangular translation task, and the automatic …

In the 17 years since the first edition of Fundamentals of Multimedia, the field and
applications of multimedia have flourished and are undergoing evermore rapid growth and …

Comprehensive and fair performance evaluation of information retrieval systems represents
an essential task for the current information age. Whereas Cranfield-based evaluations with …

Research in the Vision and Language area encompasses challenging topics that seek to
connect visual and textual information. When the visual information is related to videos, this …

Retrieving unlabeled videos by textual queries, known as Ad-hoc Video Search (AVS), is a
core theme in multimedia data management and retrieval. The success of AVS counts on …

Everyday news coverage has shifted from traditional broadcasts towards a wide range of
presentation formats such as first-hand, unedited video footage. Datasets that reflect the …

Experimental evaluations dealing with visual known-item search tasks, where real users
look for previously observed and memorized scenes in a given video collection, represent a …

The objective of this work is person-clustering in videos--grouping characters according to
their identity. Previous methods focus on the narrower task of face-clustering, and for the …