The MediaEval Multimedia Evaluation benchmark was founded in 2008 as VideoCLEF and in 2011 became an independent benchmarking initiative. Each year it offers tasks that are related to multimedia retrieval, analysis, and exploration.
Category: Events
MeVer @ EUvsVirus Hackathon
On the 24th of April 2020, a huge coronavirus-related hackathon started, the EUvsVirus Hackathon, organized by the European Commission. Over 20,900 people across the EU and beyond took part, with 2,150 solutions submitted in areas including health and life (898), business continuity (381), remote working and education (270), social and political cohesion (452), digital finance (75) and other challenges (83).
MeVer@ICCV2019
The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) is one of the major computer vision conferences, hosted by IEEE and CVF. This year’s event took place on October 27 – November 2, 2019 in Seoul, Korea. The main conference was held on October 29 – November 1, 2019, and many co-located workshops and tutorials took place on October 27, 28 and November 2, 2019.
MeVer@Truth and Trust Online 2019
The Truth and Trust Online conference achieved its mission to bring together people with different backgrounds, levels of seniority, origin and also from various disciplines. It covered a wide range of issues around the challenge of misinformation and the 257 participants had two days of amazing talks from people of well known companies, universities, media organizations, NGOs, such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, BBC, Full Fact and others.

MeVer@Researchers’ Night 2019
The Thessaloniki edition of the Researchers’ Night was held on September 27 and tried to bring researchers closer to society and inspire more young people to get involved with research.
MeVer@ROME2019
The International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Exposure ROME 2019 was co-located with the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, which took place on July 21-25, 2019 in Paris.
The Web Media Verification Challenge @ 1st EURASIP-GAIPDM Seasonal School
The Media Verification team of CERTH-ITI was invited to organize a hackathon, titled ‘The Web Media Verification Challenge’, in the 1st EURASIP-GAIPDM Seasonal School, that took place in Thessaloniki, Greece on July 15-19. 2019.
MeVer@SXSW2019
Between 9/3 and 11/3, we were at the South by Southwest (SXSW 2019) festival at Austin Texas, to present the WeVerify and InVID projects as part of the EU House at SXSW (EU@SXSW). It was an opportunity to demonstrate our work to a broad US-based audience, and to participate in the ongoing discussions about the hottest emerging issues in media and tech with some of the most important players in the field.