<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><!--StartFragment--><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*******************************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark (MediaEval)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MediaEval 2021 Registration Now Open</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://multimediaeval.github.io</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*******************************************************</span></p><div><b style="font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;"><br></b></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark (MediaEval) offers challenges in the form of shared tasks. The goal of MediaEval is to develop and evaluate new algorithms and technologies for multimedia retrieval, analysis and exploration. MediaEval tasks are innovative, involving multiple modalities, (e.g., images, video, music, user interaction data, sensor data, lifelogging data) and focusing on the human and social aspects of multimedia. Our larger aim is to promote reproducible research that makes multimedia a positive force for society.</span></p><div><b style="font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;"><br></b></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MediaEval 2021 Tasks:</span></p><div><b style="font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;"><br></b></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Driving Road Safety Forward: Video Data Privacy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emerging News: Detecting emerging stories from social media and news feeds</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emotional Mario: A Games Analytics Challenge</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emotions and Themes in Music</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FakeNews: Corona Virus and Conspiracies Multimedia Analysis Task</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Insight for Wellbeing: Cross-Data Analytics for (transboundary) Haze Prediction</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Medico: Transparency in Medical Image Segmentation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NewsImages: The relation between images and text in news articles</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Predicting Media Memorability</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sports Video: Fine Grained Action Detection and Classification of Table Tennis Strokes from videos</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visual Sentiment Analysis: A Natural Disaster Use-case</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WaterMM: Water Quality in Social Multimedia</span></p><div><b style="font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;"><br></b></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For details of the tasks and information on how to register visit: https://multimediaeval.github.io/editions/2021/</span></p><div><b style="font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;"><br></b></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tasks will start to release data at the end of July and continue through August. Submissions will be due in early November. The MediaEval 2021 Workshop is a hybrid workshop that will take place in Bergen, Norway 6-8 December 2021 and also provide an opportunity for online participation. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information see https://multimediaeval.github.io or contact Martha Larson m.larson at cs.ru.nl or Steven Hicks <a href="mailto:steven@simula.no">steven@simula.no</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">On behalf on the MediaEval organization team,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Gabi Constantin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Researcher at:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Personal page: http://gconstantin.aimultimedialab.ro/</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">AI Multimedia Lab: https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">CAMPUS Research Center: http://www.campus.pub.ro/</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">University Politehnica of Bucharest https://upb.ro/en/ </span></p><!--EndFragment--></div></body></html>