Creating a web-scale video collection for research

Published

October 23, 2009

Author(s)

Paul D. Over, George M. Awad, Alan Smeaton, Colum Foley, James Lanagan

Abstract

This paper begins by considering a number of important design questions for a web-scale, widely available, multimedia test collection intended to support long-term scientific evaluation and comparison of content-based video analysis and exploitation systems. Such exploitation systems would include the kinds of functionality already explored within the annual TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVid) benchmarking activity such as search, semantic concept detection, and automatic summarization. We then report on our progress in creating such a multimedia collection from publicly available Internet Archive videos with Creative Commons licenses (IACC.1), which we hope will be a useful approximation of a web-scale collection and will support a next generation of benchmarking activities for content-based video operations. We also report on some possibilities for putting this collection to use in multimedia system evaluation.

Proceedings Title

The 1st International Workshop on Web-Scale Multimedia Corpus (WSMC09)

Conference Dates

October 23, 0009-October 23, 2009

Conference Location

Beijing

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

benchmarking, evaluation, video retrieval

Citation

Over, P. , Awad, G. , Smeaton, A. , Foley, C. and Lanagan, J. (2009), Creating a web-scale video collection for research, The 1st International Workshop on Web-Scale Multimedia Corpus (WSMC09), Beijing, -1, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=903000 (Accessed October 25, 2025)