We are very happy to announce the winners of the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009.
The challenge presentation took place last week in Beijing, during ACM Multimedia 2009. The session was a plenary session (read: no other presentations were going on at the same time), which meant a large crowd that, as far as I can tell, [...]
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Winners of the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009
Evaluation Metrics & Example Test Data for HP Web Content Identification Challenge
The goal of the algorithms for the HP web content identiciation challenge is to retrieve or label all the informative multimedia content in web pages. The performance of the algorithms would be measured by comparing the automatically computed results with the manually labeled ground truth. Ground truth is generated by manually labeling all the informative [...]
HP Challenge: Robust Identification of Informative Multimedia Content in Web Pages
Today’s web pages, particularly from news and Web 2.0 sites (e.g. CNN, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, etc.), are usually media-rich, containing both images and video. This trend is expected to continue as media-rich web pages become increasingly popular.
In addition to the main content, web pages typically contain various advertisements and other content that are peripherally [...]
