Video Analysis and Content Extraction

The Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Paper for Performance Evaluation is available at:

Framework for Performance Evaluation of Face, Text, and Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Video: Data, Metrics, and Protocol

Datasets:
Training Data sets are available at:

Meeting Data Training Set Part 1

Meeting Data Training Set Part 2

Test Data set is available at:

Meeting Data Test Set Part 1

The Evaluation software (F4DE-2.3.0-20110621-1633.tar.bz2) is available at:

http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/tools.cfm

Baseline algorithms (ttp2008990324.zip) are available at:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/multimedia.jsp?arnumber=4479472

The output file created by the vehicle detection baseline algorithm is not compatible with the expected output of the evaluation software. The code change required for the Vehicle detection baseline algorithm to make its output compatible with the evaluation software is given in the following file: Vehicle detection code changes

References:

[1] Rangachar Kasturi, Dmitry Goldgof, Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Vasant Manohar, John Garofolo, Rachel Bowers, Matthew Boonstra, Valentina Korzhova, and Jing Zhang, "Framework for Performance Evaluation of Face, Text, and Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Video: Data, Metrics, and Protocol," IEEE Transactions On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.31, Feb. 2009.
[2] Rangachar Kasturi, Dmitry Goldgof, Vasant Manohar, John Garofolo, Martial Michel, "Evaluation Test Bed for Object Detection/Tracking and Text Recognition in the VACE Program", IEEE Transactions On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (submitted for publication).