Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Crowdsourcing for multimedia

Crowdsourcing for multimedia exploits a combination of human intelligence and a large number of individual human contributions. In the field of multimedia, crowdsourcing is just beginning to realize its full potential to contribute to techniques, systems and data sets that advance the state of the art. The ACM Multimedia 2013 Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia (CrowdMM 2013) provides a forum for the presentation of crowdsourcing techniques for multimedia and the discussion of innovative ideas that will allow the field of multimedia research to make use of crowdsourcing. The workshop uses presentations, posters and a panel to promote discussion and exchange between researchers concerning the scope and future of crowdsourcing. The workshop defines crowdsourcing in the broad sense: it encompasses both unsolicited human contributions, e.g., tags assigned by users to images, and also solicited contributions, e.g., annotations gathered by making use of crowdsourcing platforms that micro-outsource tasks to a large pool of human workers. As in 2012, the workshop pursues two high-level goals. First, it provides a venue to encourage multimedia research making use of human intelligence and taking advantage of human plurality. Second, the workshop gives an impetus to the multimedia community to define best practices for the use of crowdsourcing in multimedia and to shape emerging paradigms that will allow crowdsourcing to push forward the state of the art in multimedia research.