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CERTH @ MediaEval 2012 Social Event Detection Task
Manos Schinas, Georgios Petkos, Symeon Papadopoulos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris
Pisa, 4-5 October 2012
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The problem • Identify social events in tagged photos collections:
– Challenge 1: Technical Events @ Germany – Challenge 2: Soccer matches @ Madrid, Hamburg – Challenge3: Indignados protest @ Madrid
• Alternative formulation: – Represent a collection of photos as a graph, where items
with high probability to belong to the same event are connected.
– Each event forms a dense sub-graph in it. – Points to community detection as method to address the
problem.
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Approach
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
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Graph Creation (1)
• Graph creation is based on the use of “Same Class” model
– A classifier which predicts whether two images belong to the same event or not
– Support Vector Machine classifier trained with the data of the 2011 challenge
– Input features: dissimilarities across user, title, tags, description, time taken, GIST, SURF/VLAD
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Graph Creation (2)
• Use the same class model to connect the items of the collection that belong to the same event
• Retrieve candidate neighbours (~350) to reduce computational cost
– 50 with respect to textual features
– 150 with respect to time
– 50 with respect to location (when it exists)
– 100 with respect to visual features
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Event Partitioning and Expansion (1)
• Event partitioning
– The nodes of the graph are clustered into candidate events by using the Structural Clustering Algorithm for Networks (SCAN).
– The items clustered together by SCAN are used to obtain an aggregate representation of each candidate social event.
– Split the candidate events that exceed a predefined time range into shorter events.
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Event Partitioning and Expansion (2)
• Expansion of the candidate events set
– Each image that does not belong to any event forms a single-item event.
– Merge these single-item events into larger clusters by checking location and time.
– Add the new events in the set of the candidate events
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Event Filtering (1)
• Filter in two ways:
– By using geo-location (if exists)
– By using tag-based models
• Geo-location Filtering
– Discard events that don’t contained into the bounding box of the specific challenge
– 30% of candidate events are discarded
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Event Filtering (2)
• Tag-based filtering
– Build term models by finding the 500 dominant terms for the specific locations and event types.
– we collect images from Flickr that are relevant to the location or the type of event of interest.
– Images for Madrid, Hamburg and Germany
– Images for indignados, soccer and technical events
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Event Filtering (3)
• Tag-based filtering – Probability of appearance
– We compute the ratio of the probability of appearance in the focus set over the probability of appearance in the reference set.
– Keep the 500 terms with the highest ratio
– Jaccard similarity between a tag model and events terms
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Evaluation
Notation Run 1: Same class model trained with 10000 pairs of images. Run 2: Same class model trained with 30000 pairs of images. Run 3: Same class model of run 1 with post processing step
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Discussion (1)
• Moving from a smaller (run 1) to a larger (run 2) training dataset does not seem to improve most of the performance over fitting
• Method fails in challenge 1 because these events are different from these of the training dataset
• A good tag model has to be used for classification in post-filtering step
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Discussion (2)
• Future actions:
– train the same class model with a richer set of data
– explore different graph construction strategies and community detection algorithms.
• Ways to improve:
– better topic classification methods
– more sophisticated methods for location estimation
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Questions