The Flood-Related Multimedia Task at MediaEval 2020.

This paper provides a description of the Flood-related Multimedia Task at MediaEval 2020. The primary goal of the task is to analyse and combine textual and visual content from social media data that reflect real-world events. The focus is on natural disasters and especially on flooding incidents, which are frequent around the globe and have large social consequences for communities and individuals. In particular, the task requires participants to identify Twitter posts that are relevant to flood events in a specific area of interest, based on their text and images. The automatic classification of posts as relevant or not relevant will essentially improve the quality of retrieved social media data, so that they can play a more valuable role in the emergency management.