In papers referring to the TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation's (TRECVID's) general goals, guidelines, general results, etc. please cite tbe following publication:

BibTex

@inproceedings{1178722,
 author = {Alan F. Smeaton and Paul Over and Wessel Kraaij},
 title = {Evaluation campaigns and TRECVid},
 booktitle = {{MIR} '06: {P}roceedings of the 8th {ACM} {I}nternational {W}orkshop on {M}ultimedia {I}nformation {R}etrieval},
 year = {2006},
 isbn = {1-59593-495-2},
 pages = {321--330},
 location = {Santa Barbara, California, USA},
 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1178677.1178722},
 publisher = {ACM Press},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 }

ACM Ref

Smeaton, A. F., Over, P., and Kraaij, W. 2006. Evaluation campaigns
and TRECVid. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on
Multimedia Information Retrieval (Santa Barbara, California, USA,
October 26 - 27, 2006). MIR '06. ACM Press, New York, NY,
321-330. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1178677.1178722 

In papers referring to TRECVID's work in high-level feature extraction please cite the following publication:

BibTex

@incollection{trecvid.features,
 author = {Alan F. Smeaton and Paul Over and Wessel Kraaij},
 title = {High-{L}evel {F}eature {D}etection from {V}ideo in {TRECV}id: 
 a 5-{Y}ear {R}etrospective of {A}chievements},
 booktitle = {Multimedia Content Analysis, Theory and Applications},
 pages = {151--174},
 editor = {Ajay Divakaran},
 year = {2009},
 isbn = {978-0-387-76567-9},
 publisher = {Springer Verlag},
 address = {Berlin}
  }