MediaEval is a benchmarking initiative dedicated to evaluating new algorithms for multimedia access and retrieval. It attracts participants who are interested in multimodal approaches to multimedia involving, e.g., speech recognition, multimedia content analysis, user-contributed information (tags, tweets), viewer affective response, social networks, temporal and geo-coordinates. MediaEval was established in 2008 as VideoCLEF, a track of CLEF, and in 2010 became an independent benchmarking initiative.
Following the eight successful previous events of CBMI, the Video Processing and Understanding Lab (VPULab) and the Information Retrieval Group (IRG) at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid will organize the next CBMI event on 13-15 June 2011 in Madrid, Spain.