Micro-videos have rapidly become one of the most dominant trends in the era of social
media. Accordingly, how to organize them draws our attention. Distinct from the traditional …

The Placing Task is a yearly challenge offered by the MediaEval Multimedia Benchmarking
Initiative that requires participants to develop algorithms that automatically predict the geo …

The “crowd” has become a very important geospatial data provider. Specifically, nonexpert
users have been providing a wealth of quantitative geospatial data (eg, geotagged tweets or …

Energy system information for electricity access planning such as the locations and
connectivity of electricity transmission and distribution towers—termed the power grid—is …

The seventh edition of the Placing Task at MediaEval focuses on two challenges:(1)
estimation-based placing, which addresses estimating the geographic location where a …

We propose an automatic method that addresses the challenge of predicting the geo-
location of social images using only the visual content of those images. Our method is able …

City-identification of videos aims to determine the likelihood of a video belonging to a set of
cities. In this paper, we present an approach using only audio, thus we do not use any …

In this paper we propose methods to extract geographically relevant information in a
multimedia recording using its audio. Our method primarily is based on the fact that urban …

Kinship verification is the problem whereby a third party determines whether two people are
related. Despite previous research in Psychology and Machine Vision, the factors affecting a …

Benchmarks have the power to bring research communities together to focus on specific
research challenges. They drive research forward by making it easier to systematically …