TRECVID 2020 Notebook Papers (DRAFT versions)

Table of Contents

Paper: TRECVID 2020: A comprehensive campaign for evaluating video retrieval tasks across multiple application domains (.pdf)
G. Awad, A. Butt, K. Curtis, J. Fiscus, A. Godil, Y. Lee, A. Delgado, J. Zhang, E. Godard, B. Chocot -- Information Access Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
L. Diduch -- Dakota-Consulting, Inc, USA
J. Liu -- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
A. F. Smeaton, Y. Graham, G. J. F. Jones -- Dublin City University, Ireland
W. Kraaij -- Leiden University; TNO, Netherlands
G. Quénot -- Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France

University of Augsburg
 Paper: Transforming Videos to Text (VTT Task) Team: MMCUniAugsburg(.pdf)
P. Harzig, M. Einfalt, K. Ludwig, R. Lienhart -- University of Augsburg, Germany

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
 Paper: BUPT-MCPRL at TRECVID 2020: INS (.pdf)
Q. Zhang, J. Zhang, Z. Zhao, Y. Zhao, F. Su -- Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Paper: BUPT-MCPRL at TRECVID 2020: ActEV (.pdf)
X. Zhao, Q. Cao, X. Cheng, J. Wan, Y. Du, B. Zhang, Y. Zhao, Z. Zhao, F. Su -- Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
H. Chen -- China Mobile Research Institute, China

University of North Texas
 Paper: Application of Very Deep Neural Nets to Videos Depicting Extreme Events (.pdf)
Y. Li, H. Wang, S. Sun, B. Buckles -- University of North Texas, USA

EURECOM and Aalto University
 Paper: Using Fan-Made Content, Subtitles and Face Recognition for Character-Centric Video Summarization (.pdf)
I Harrando, A. Reboud, P. Lisena, R. Troncy -- EURECOM, France
J. Laaksonen, A. Virkkunen, M. Kurimo -- Aalto University, Finland

Korea University
 Paper: KU-ISPL TRECVID 2020 VTT Model (.pdf)
J. Lee, Y. Jin, G. Kim, H. Ko -- Intelligent Signal Processing Laboratory, Korea University

Florida International University; University of Miami
 Paper: Florida International University - University of Miami TRECVID 2020 DSDI Track(.pdf)
M. Presa-Reyes, S. Chen -- Florida International University, USA
Y. Tao, M. Shyu -- University of Miami, USA

The University of Electro-Communications
 Paper: UEC at TRECVID 2020: INS and ActEV(.pdf)
S. Mizuno, K. Yanai -- The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo , Japan

University of Chile; Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)
 Paper: IMFD IMPRESEE at TRECVID 2020: Description Generation by Visual-Syntactic Embedding(.pdf)
J. Perez-Martin, B. Bustos, J. Perez, J. M. Barrios -- University of Chile

Carnegie Mellon University
 Paper: CMU Informedia at TRECVID 2020: Activity Detection with Dense Spatio-temporal Proposals(.pdf)
L. Yu, Y. Qian, W. Liu, A. G. Hauptmann -- Carnegie Mellon University

Tokyo Institute of Technology
 Paper: Tokyo Tech at TRECVID 2020: Relation Modeling for Video Action Detection(.pdf)
R. P. Amorim, N. Inoue, K. Shinoda -- Tokyo Institute of Technology

University of Technology Sydney
 Paper: UTS Submission at the TRECVID 2020 Disaster Scene Description and Indexing Task(.pdf)
Q. Rao, L. Zhu, Y. Yang -- University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
 Paper: ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2020(.pdf)
K. Gkountakos, D. Galanopoulos, M. Mpakratsas, D. Touska, A. Moumtzidou, K. Ioannidis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris -- Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

Kindai University and Osaka Gakuin University
 Paper: Kindai University and Osaka Gakuin University at TRECVID 2020 AVS and ActEV Tasks(.pdf)
D. Mukai, R. Utsunomiya, S. Utsuki, K. Shirahama -- Department of Informatics, Kindai University
T. Matsubara -- Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
K. Uehara -- Department of Business Administration, Osaka Gakuin University

Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka
 Paper: Automatic Caption Generation for Video Clips Using Keyframe and Document Summarization Techniques(.pdf)
M. Hoshino, T. Yukawa -- Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan

National Institute of Informatics, Japan University of Information Technology, VNU-HCMC, Vietnam
Paper: NII_UIT AT TRECVID 2020(.pdf)
D. Le, H. Vo, D. Nguyen, T. Do, T. Pham, T. Vo, T. Nguyen, V. Nguyen, T. Ngo -- University of Information Technology, VNU-HCMC, Vietnam
Z. Wang, S. Satoh -- National Institute of Informatics, Japan

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology;National Institute of Informatics
 Paper: Is AutoML a practical way of tackling DSDI Task?(.pdf)
S. Iwasawa, K. Uchimoto, Y. Kidawara -- National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
S. Satoh -- NICT / National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Hitachi, Ltd
 Paper: Hitachi at TRECVID DSDI 2020(.pdf)
S. Okazaki, Q. Kong, T. Yoshinaga -- Lumada Data Science Lab., Hitachi, Ltd
M. Klinkigt -- Future Design Lab, Minatomirai Research Center, KYOCERA Corporation

Aalto University School of Science
 Paper: PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2020(.pdf)
J. Laaksonen, Z. Guo -- Aalto University School of Science, Finland

Peking University
 Paper: PKU_WICT at TRECVID 2020: Instance Search Task(.pdf)
Y. Peng, Z. Ye, J. Zhang, H. Sun -- Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Renmin University of China
 Paper: RUC_AIM3 at TRECVID 2020: Ad-hoc Video Search & Video to Text Description(.pdf)
Y. Zhao, Y. Song, S. Chen, Q. Jin -- Renmin University of China, China

Paper: Renmin University of China at TRECVID 2020: Sentence Encoder Assembly for Ad-hoc Video Search(.pdf)
X. Li, F. Zhou, A. Chen -- Renmin University of China, China

LINKS Foundation
 Paper: Independent Category Classifiers for Emergency Scene Description using Deep Learning approaches(.pdf)
M. Zaffaroni -- University of Turin, Italy
F. Oldani, C. Rossi -- LINKS Foundation, Italy

University of Central Florida
 Paper: UCF-System: Activity Detection in Untrimmed Videos(.pdf)
I. Dave, Z. Scheffer, P. Tirupattur, Y. Rawat, M. Shah -- University of Central Florida

City University of Hong Kong
 Paper: VIREO @ TRECVID 2020: Ad-hoc Video Search(.pdf)
J. Wu, P. A. Nguyen, C. Ngo -- City University of Hong Kong

Paper: Towards low-altitude image analysis: Object-enhanced concept detection (.pdf)
E. Christakis, S. Demertzis, K. Stavridis, A. Psaltis, A. Dimou, P. Daras -- Visual Computing Lab, Information Technologies Institute, Greece

Wuhan University and Guilin University of Electronic Technology
 Paper: WHU-NERCMS AT TRECVID2020: INSTANCE SEARCH TASK(.pdf)
J. Yang, K. Chen, Y. Niu, X. Fan, C. Liang -- National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University

Waseda University; Meisei University; SoftBank Corporation
 Paper: Waseda_Meisei_SoftBank at TRECVID 2020: Ad-hoc Video Search (.pdf)
K. Ueki, R. Mutou -- Department of Information Science, Meisei University, Japan
T. Hori -- Global Information and Telecommunication Institute, Waseda University; SoftBank Corp., Japan
Y. Kim, Y. Suzuki -- AI Solution Division, 5G & IoT Solution Division, SoftBank Corp., Japan

XinHuaZhiYun Inc; State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence Production Technology and Systems
 Paper: TRECVID 2020 AVS: Solution of ZY_BJLAB Team (.pdf)
K. Cui, H. Liu, C. Wang, C. Xu -- XinHuaZhiYun Inc.
Y. Jiang -- State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence Production Technology and Systems

Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram Development and Educational Communication Unit (DECU), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
 Paper: Attention based caption augmented W2VV++ Adhoc Video Search (AVS) trecvid task (.pdf)
R. Sharma -- DECU, ISRO Ahmedabad, India
D. Mishra -- Avionics Department,IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Indias
H. Bhatt -- SAC, ISRO Ahmedabad, India