Synchronization of multi-user event media at MediaEval 2015: Task description, datasets, and evaluation

The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the Synchronization of Multi-User Event Media (SEM) Task, which is part of the MediaEval Benchmark for Multimedia Evaluation. The SEM task was initially presented at MediaEval in 2014, with the goal of proposing a challenge in aligning multiple users’ photo galleries related to the same event but with unreliable timestamps. Besides aligning the pictures on a common timeline, participants were also required to detect the sub-events and cluster the pictures accordingly. For 2015 we have decided to extend the task also to other types of media, thus including audio and video information for a more complete and diversified representation of the analyzed event.