VideOlympics: Real-Time Evaluation of Multimedia Retrieval Systems

The first VideOlympics brings content-based analysis to the archive and allows for many-to- many communication between video search engines and their audience It was a great Success. The VideOlympics provided the excitement of a competition without the associated stress on the participants. For the first time, the audience was able to compare different multimedia retrieval systems on the same tasks and see how they performed with unrehearsed topics. Many audience members felt they understood the technology's capabilities after seeing it in live action and in several system variations.