Keynote Speakers

• Wessel Kraaij
  TNO, The Netherlands
  
  "TRECVid & future of video search"
  Wessel Kraaij and Alan Smeaton
  

  Abstract

  TRECVid is the leading annual benchmark conference on content based video indexing & retrieval techniques. In seven years, TRECVid has evaluated various component tasks and attained a participation of 40+ research groups from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. TRECVid stimulates innovative research on video access by providing a standardized testbed allowing comparison of approaches. An important element determining the success of TRECVid is the fact that it is driven by the research community itself.
  
  Some of the component tasks that have been studied can be considered as solved (such as shot boundary detection), others such as generic concept indexing are still way behind the accuracy of textual indexing techniques that internet users expect. In this talk we will contrast state of the art video indexing and retrieval techniques with some of the existing video search services that are deployed. An example is the role and importance of manual annotation. Concept indexing techniques typically depend on the availability and reliability of manually annotated keyframes. Existing video search applications also rely on manual content descriptions, but these usually apply to the full clip. We will also assess the potential impact of TRECVid on end user solutions for video search and in what way the current video search solutions influence new tasks for TRECVid.

  Biography

  Dr. Wessel Kraaij is a senior researcher working for TNO since 1995. He has been leading several applied research projects in the areas of information retrieval, language technology and content management. His main research interests are multimedia retrieval and language technology. He (co-)authored over 70 research papers for workshops, conferences and journals as well as several book chapters in the areas of cross language information retrieval, web retrieval, multimedia retrieval, summarization, topic detection and tracking, language modeling for IR and NLP enhanced IR. He is a regular reviewer for IR journals and program committee member of conferences in the area of information retrieval and natural language processing. Since 2003 he is a joint coordinator of the NIST TRECVID benchmarking workshop on video retrieval. He was general co-chair of SIGIR 2007, the premier IR conference.