CFP: Video Browser Showdown at MMM 2012

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS
							 
                         **Video Browser Showdown**
						 
                        http://mmm2012.org/vbshowdown/
						 
       January 6, 2012, Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria.
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The Video Browser Showdown (held as a separate session of MMM 2012) is a live 
video browsing competition where international researchers, working in the field 
of interactive video search, evaluate and demonstrate the efficiency of their 
tools in presence of the audience. The aim of the Video Browser Showdown is to 
evaluate video browsing tools for their efficiency at "Known Item Search"(KIS) tasks 
with a well-defined data set in direct comparison with other tools. For each 
KIS task the searchers need to interactively find a short video clip 
in a one-hour video file within a specific time limit. 

The Video Browser Showdown will be a moderated "special demo session" of MMM 2012, 
where 24 KIS tasks (2◊12) need to be solved. For each task the moderator presents 
the target clip on a shared screen that is visible to all participants. 
The participants use their own equipment to perform an interactive search in the 
specified video file (taken from a common data set). The performance of participating 
tools will be evaluated in terms of successful answers and average search time.
The decision for the best-performing tool is based on two runs:
- expert run: the participants (developers of the tools) themselves act as searchers
- novice run: volunteers from the audience act as searchers (after a short training phase) 
The overall best-performing tool will be awarded with the "Best Video Browser" certificate.