Working with Existing Data

Setup guide for working with existing data

This page is mostly intended for students working with data from the Video Browser Showdown (VBS) or the Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC).

Cottontail Setup

For Cottontail, we provide folders which contain extracted features and metadata. Be aware that Cottontail 0.15.0 changed storage format, for competitions where two versions of the data exist, you'll find appropriate tags.

Simply unzip the provided zip and make sure your cottontail config points to the correct folder.

Cineast Setup

We should provide Cineast config files in the appropriate competition repos. It is possible that config formats have changed. If that happens, please make the corresponding changes and open a PR.

Frontend Setup

For most datasets, we should have the media and thumbnails on a node accessible within the VPN. Ask your supervisor for a local copy or access it via the VPN. You should also have been provided with a copy of the frontend config file. Replace src/config.json with that file.