Acknowledgment

We are grateful to the following people and institutions for their help and support, without which the Challenge Problem would not have been possible:

• Paul Over (NIST)
• Alan Smeaton and Wessel Kraaij (TRECVID coordinators)
• Kevin Walker (LDC)
• TRECVID 2005 common annotation participants
• Fraunhofer Institute for master shot boundaries
• Dublin City University for key frame extraction
• LSCOM for concept definition

This research is sponsored by the BSIK MultimediaN project.