The multimedia satellite task at MediaEval 2018: Emergency response for flooding events

Benjamin Bischke, Patrick Helber, Zhengyu Zhao, Jens De Bruijn, Damian Borth

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Abstract

This paper provides a description of the MediaEval 2018 Multimedia Satellite Task. The primary goal of the task is to extract and fuse content associated with events represent in Satellite Imagery and Social Media. Establishing a link from Satellite Imagery to Social Multimedia can yield to a comprehensive event representation which is vital for numerous applications. Focusing on natural disaster events, the main objective of the task is to leverage the combined event representation within the context of emergency response and environmental monitoring. In particular, our task focuses on flooding events and consists of two subtasks. The first Image Classification from Social Media subtask requires participants to retrieve images from Social Media that show a direct evidence for road passability during flooding events. The second task Flood Detection from Satellite Images aims to extract potentially flooded road sections from satellite images. The task seeks to go beyond state-of-the-art flooding map generation by focusing on information about road passability and the accessibility of urban infrastructure. Such information shows a clear potential to complement information from social images with satellite imagery for emergency management. Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMediaEval 2018 - Multimedia Benchmark Workshop
Subtitle of host publicationWorking Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2018 Workshop. Sophia Antipolis, France, 29-31 October 2018
EditorsMartha Larson, Piyush Arora, Claire-Hélène Demarty, Michael Riegler, Benjamin Bischke, Emmanuel Dellandrea, Mathias Lux, Alastair Porter, Gareth J.F. Jones
PublisherCEUR-WS.org
Pages1-3
Number of pages3
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event2018 Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval Workshop, MediaEval 2018 - Sophia Antipolis, France
Duration: 29 Oct 201831 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
PublisherCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume2283
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Conference

Conference2018 Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval Workshop, MediaEval 2018
Country/TerritoryFrance
CitySophia Antipolis
Period29/10/1831/10/18

Funding

We would like to thank Martha Larson for the very valuable feedback and support during the setup of this task. Additionally, we would like to thank DigitalGlobe for providing us with high-resolution satellite images for this task. This work was partially funded by the BMBF Project DeFuseNN (01IW17002).

FundersFunder number
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung01IW17002

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