Social Event Detection dataset made available for researchers

CERTH has successfully contributed to the organization of this year's Social Event Detection task (SED 2012) that took place in Pisa 4-5 October, in the context of MediaEval 2012. The SED 2012 dataset has been made publicly available for download and use by the research community. You can freely download the dataset from http://mklab.iti.gr/project/sed2012 . The downloadable archives include the following:

• The three 2012 SED Challenges definitions,
• The XML metadata for the images in the test dataset,
• The actual image files of the test dataset,
• Ground truth results for the defined challenges/dataset,
• Our evaluation script.

Please feel free to use this dataset for research purposes, and also to disseminate the above information to anyone else who may be interested.