Collaborative Visual Stories
Submissions are open on the CMT Conference Management for CollabVS.
When an event occurs in real-life, there may be little information available at first. However, as pictures and textual descriptions about the event arrive, they form an evolving story, which is of critical value for the affected or interested persons. This evolving story corresponds to a semantic topic that can be tracked over time with both textual and visual information from multiple social-media sources (i.e., end-users or online services). Moreover, as social-media sources continue to publish information about the story, it becomes critical to select the most relevant information. Thus, based on all collaborative audio-visual and textual information, one can create summaries or stories of those real-world events.
Edinburgh Festival Storyline
The ICCV 2017 Workshop on Collaborative Visual Stories seeks contributions in the area of visual story creation, with collaborative videos, images and texts available from professional media and social-media users. The challenges in creating such visual timelines are various: alignment of videos and images through sound or timestamps, detection of video intervals of high interest, caption generation for a group of pictures, among others.
The workshop also welcomes contributions that address specific real-world use-cases (e.g. news, life-logs, festivals), where the visual and textual domain content provide complementary evidences that push the development of new cross-modal storytelling research. These contributions should use public datasets, e.g. MediaEval, LifeLogs, made available by the authors.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: 28 July
Decision Notification: 20 August
Camera Ready: 25 August
Workshop: 23 October 2017
Keynote Speakers:
Rosie Campbell - Technologist at BBC R&D
Contact:
This workshop is organized by the H2020 ICT project COGNITUS under grant number 687685.
