The MediaEval Benchmark Looks Back at a Successful Fifteenth Edition, and Forward to its Sweet Sixteen

The Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation (MediaEval) organizes interesting and engaging tasks related to multimedia data. MediaEval is proud to be supported by SIGMM. Tasks involve analyzing and exploring multimedia collections, as well as accessing the information that they contain. MediaEval emphasizes challenges that have a human or social aspect in order to support our goal of making multimedia a positive force in society. Participants in MediaEval are encouraged to submit effective, but also creative solutions to MediaEval tasks: We carry out quantitative evaluation of the submissions, but also go beyond the scores in order to obtain insight into the tasks, data, metrics.