Medical Video Question Answering Challenge at TREC 2024
The Medical Video Question Answering (MedVidQA) challenge is being organized as part of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 2024. This challenge focuses on developing models to answer medical or health-related questions by retrieving relevant videos, locating the visual answer, and generating step-by-step textual summaries of the visual instructional segment. The track comprises two main tasks: Video Corpus Visual Answer Localization (VCVAL) and Query-Focused Instructional Step Captioning (QFISC).
Participants are required to complete their registration by submitting the TREC 2024 Registration Form here. Important dates for the challenge are as follows:
- Release of the training and validation datasets: April 30, 2024
- Release of the video corpus: May 12, 2024
- Release of the test sets: June 7 (Task A), September 2, 2024 (Task B)
- Run submission deadline: August 12 (Task A), September 16, 2024 (Task B)
- Release of the official results: September 8 (Task A), October 11, 2024 (Task B)
Join the Google Group for important updates and ask questions on the Google Group or email the organizers at deepak.gupta at nih.gov.