TRECVID 2017 guidelines

Tentative Schedule

The following are the target dates for 2017:

  16. Jan
• NIST sends out Call for Participation in TRECVID 2017

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   1. Mar
• Final versions of TRECVID 2016 papers due at NIST

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   1. Apr
• Final Guidelines for TRECVID 2017 complete

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   3. Apr
• Applications for participation in TRECVID 2017 due at NIST

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   8. May
• LNK: Development data release

  18. May
• AVS: Ad-hoc video search topics available from NIST

  22. May
• INS: Instance search topics available from NIST

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   1. Jun
• SED: Dry run starts

  12. Jun
• INS: Submission webpage open (trial submissions highly recommended)
• LNK: Test anchors release

  22. Jun
• INS: Instance search submissions due at NIST by NOON Washington, DC time

  26. Jun
• AVS: Submission webpage open (trial submissions highly recommended)

  29. Jun - 21. Jul
• INS: Instance search assessment at NIST

  30. Jun
• SED: Dry run evaluation ends

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  10. Jul
• AVS: Submissions due at NIST for evaluation by NOON, Washington, DC time

  21. Jul
• SED: Submissions due at NIST

  31. Jul
• SED: Initial scoring results returned to participants

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  1. Aug - 23. Aug
• AVS: Ad-hoc Video Search assessment at NIST

   1. Aug
• INS: Instance search task results returned

   1. Aug
• VTT: Testing data available from NIST


• SED: Final scoring results returned to participants

  14. Aug
• LNK: Submission webpage open (trial submissions highly recommended)

  15. Aug
• VTT: Submission webpage open (trial submissions highly recommended)

  15. Aug
• MED: AdHoc events released as event texts and a list of video files from the YFCC100M dataset

  28. Aug
• AVS: Evaluation results returned

  28. Aug
• LNK: Final submissions due at NIST by NOON Washington, DC time

   31. Aug
• MED: Pre-specified and AdHoc submissions due at NIST by NOON Washington, DC time

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   1. Sep
• VTT: Submissions due at NIST by NOON Washington, DC time

  15. Sep
• VTT: Evaluation results returned

  15. Sep - 29. Sep
• MED: Multimedia event detection judging

  25. Sep
• LNK: Evaluation results returned to participants

  25. Sep
• TRECVID Workshop registration and general information available

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   6. Oct
• MED: Evaluation results returned for both Pre-specified and AdHoc events

   10. Oct
• Speaker proposals due at NIST by noon Washington, DC time

  15. Oct
• submission of “extended demo papers for the VBS”

  17. Oct
• Workshop Agenda Posted

  31. Oct
• Workshop notebook papers due at NIST by NOON Washington, DC time (no late submissions allowed)

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  6. Nov
• Copyright forms due back at NIST (see Notebook papers for instructions)

  7. Nov
• TRECVID 2017 Workshop registration closes at 5:00PM Washington, DC time

13 - 15. Nov  (Mon.-Wed)
• TRECVID Workshop (2.5 days) at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, USA

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  5. Feb - 7. Feb 2018
• on site event of the VBS at the MMM 2018 conference in Bangkok, Thailand

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  1. Mar 2018
• Final versions of TRECVID 2017 papers due at NIST