The Placing Task at MediaEval 2016

The seventh edition of the Placing Task at MediaEval focuses on two challenges: (1) estimation-based placing, which addresses estimating the geographic location where a photo or video was taken, and (2) verification-based placing, which addresses verifying whether a photo or video was indeed taken at a pre-specified geographic location. Like the previous edition, we made the organizer baselines for both subtasks available as open source code, and published a live leaderboard that allows the participants to gain insights into the effectiveness of their approaches compared to the official baselines and in relation to each other at an early stage, before the actual run submissions are due.