Performance Evaluation in Multimedia Retrieval

Performance evaluation in multimedia retrieval, as in the information retrieval domain at large, relies heavily on retrieval experiments, employing a broad range of techniques and metrics. These can involve human-in-the-loop and machine-only settings for the retrieval process itself and the subsequent verification of results. Such experiments can be elaborate and use-case-specific, which can make them difficult to compare or replicate. In this paper, we present a formal model to express all relevant aspects of such retrieval experiments, as well as a flexible open-source evaluation infrastructure that implements the model. These contributions intend to make a step towards lowering the hurdles for conducting retrieval experiments and improving their reproducibility.

Proceedings of eNTERFACE 2015 Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces

The 11th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces eNTERFACE 2015 was hosted by the Numediart Institute of Creative Technologies of the University of Mons from August 10th to September 2015. During the four weeks, students and researchers from all over the world came together in the Numediart Institute of the University of Mons to work on eight selected projects structured around intelligent interfaces. Eight projects were selected and their reports are shown here.