Interested participants are invited to apply their approaches and methods on an extended novel Deep Video Understanding (DVU) dataset being made available by the challenge organizers. The dataset will be annotated by human assessors and final ground truth, both at the overall movie level (Ontology of relations, entities, actions & events, Knowledge Graph, and names and images of all main characters), and the individual scene level (Ontology of locations, people/entities, attributes for these and interactions between) will be provided for 50% of the dataset to participating researchers for training and development of their systems. The organizers will support evaluation and scoring for a hybrid of main query types, at the overall movie level and at the individual scene level distributed with the dataset (please refer to the dataset webpage for more details):
Example Question types at Overall Movie Level:
1- Multiple choice question answering on part of Knowledge Graph for selected movies.
2- Possible path analysis between persons / entities of interest in a Knowledge Graph extracted from selected movies.
3- Fill in the Graph Space – Given a partial graph, systems will be asked to fill in the graph space.
Example Question types at Individual Scene Level:
1- Find the next or previous interaction, given two people, a specific scene, and the interaction between them.
4- Match between selected scenes and set of scene descriptions written in natural language
Challenge Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/dvuchallenge2021/home/
Important Dates:
Complete HLVU annotations for development and testing data ,used in 2020, available: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1q1Ca0aFJrF9tB8hsw-mrI9d4tzy5wlPZ
DVU development data release: Available now from: https://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/trecvid/dvu/training/
Testing dataset release : https://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/trecvid/dvu/testing
Testing queries release : June 6, 2021
Run submissions due to organizers: July 11, 2021
Paper submission deadline: July 11, 2021
Results released back to participants: TBD
Notification to authors: TBD
camera-ready submission: TBD
ACM Multimedia dates: October 20 – 24, 2021
Tha DVU2021 Organizers