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Performance Evaluation in Multimedia Retrieval

Information Retrieval 2024-10-10 v1 Multimedia

Abstract

Performance evaluation in multimedia retrieval, as in the information retrieval domain at large, relies heavily on retrieval experiments, employing a broad range of techniques and metrics. These can involve human-in-the-loop and machine-only settings for the retrieval process itself and the subsequent verification of results. Such experiments can be elaborate and use-case-specific, which can make them difficult to compare or replicate. In this paper, we present a formal model to express all relevant aspects of such retrieval experiments, as well as a flexible open-source evaluation infrastructure that implements the model. These contributions intend to make a step towards lowering the hurdles for conducting retrieval experiments and improving their reproducibility.

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@article{arxiv.2410.06654,
  title  = {Performance Evaluation in Multimedia Retrieval},
  author = {Loris Sauter and Ralph Gasser and Heiko Schuldt and Abraham Bernstein and Luca Rossetto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06654},
  year   = {2024}
}
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