MESH participation to TRECVID2008 HLFE

A group of four organizations from the MESH consortium (www.mesh-ip.eu) participated this year for the first time in the High Level Feature Extraction track in TRECVID. The partners were Telefonica I+D (TID, Spain), Informatics & Telematics Institute (ITI, Greece), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA, Greece) and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM, Spain). We submitted a total of 6 runs, using different variations and configurations over a common model. With only one exception, results obtained by those runs were below expectations, mostly due (we believe) to some implementation bugs discovered afterwards. Some of those errors have already been solved and we hope to correct the rest and improve the performance of the system for future editions.

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