Retrieving diverse social images at mediaeval 2016: Challenge, dataset and evaluation

Conference of 2016 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, MediaEval 2016 ; Conference Date: 20 October 2016 Through 21 October 2016; Conference Code:125011International audienceThis paper provides an overview of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images task that is organized as part of the Media-Eval 2016 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. The task addresses the problem of result diversification in the context of social photo retrieval where images, metadata, text information, user tagging profiles and content and text models are available for processing. We present the task challenges, the proposed data set and ground truth, the required participant runs and the evaluation metrics