Dear colleagues and friends,

This year, we are organizing the MedVidQA https://medvidqa.github.io/challenge with TREC 2024 https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/call2024.html. This challenge aims at developing models for (1) retrieving the relevant videos and locating the visual answer in those videos for the medical or health-related question and (2) generating step-by-step textual summaries of the visual instructional segment that can be considered the answer to the medical query. This track comprises two main tasks: Video Corpus Visual Answer Localization (VCVAL) and Query-Focused Instructional Step Captioning (QFISC).

For more details, please visit the challenge website ( https://medvidqa.github.io/) and the TREC 2024 website ( https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/call2024.html).

Participants are required to complete their registration by submitting the TREC 2024 Registration Form https://ir.nist.gov/evalbase/accounts/login/?next=/evalbase/.

*Important Dates*

- *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),

We look forward to your participation in MedVidQA at TREC 2024.

Join our Google Group https://groups.google.com/g/trec-medvidqa2024 for important updates! If you have any questions, ask us on our Google Group https://groups.google.com/g/trec-medvidqa2024 or email deepak.gupta@nih.gov us.

Thank you,

MedVidQA 2024 Organizers