Background and Objective: In silico prediction of drug-target interactions (DTI) could provide valuable information and speed-up the process of drug repositioning -finding novel usage for existing drugs. In our work, we focus on machine learning algorithms supporting drug-centric repositioning approach, which aims to find novel usage for existing or abandoned drugs. We aim at proposing a per-drug ranking-based method, which reflects the needs of drug-centric repositioning research better than conventional drug-target prediction approaches. Methods: We propose Bayesian Ranking Prediction of Drug-Target Interactions(BRDTI). The method is based on Bayesian Personalized Ranking matrix factorization (BPR) which has been shown to be an excellent approach for various preference learning tasks, however, it has not been used for DTI prediction previously. In order to successfully deal with DTI challenges, we extended BPR by proposing: (i) the incorporation of target bias, (ii) a technique to handle new drugs and (iii) content alignment to take structural similarities of drugs and targets into account. Conclusions:Based on the evaluation, we can conclude that BRDTI is an appropriate choice for researchers looking for an in silico DTI prediction technique to be used in drugcentric repositioning scenarios. BRDTI Software and supplementary materials are available online at www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/~peska/BRDTI.

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The Video Browser Showdown addresses difficult video search challenges through an annual interactive evaluation campaign attracting research teams focusing on interactive video retrieval. The campaign aims to provide insights into the performance of participating interactive video retrieval systems, tested by selected search tasks on large video collections. For the first time in its ten year history, the Video Browser Showdown 2021 was organized in a fully remote setting and hosted a record number of sixteen scoring systems. In this paper, we describe the competition setting, tasks and results and give an overview of state-of-the-art methods used by the competing systems. By looking at query result logs provided by ten systems, we analyze differences in retrieval model performances and browsing times before a correct submission. Through advances in data gathering methodology and tools, we provide a comprehensive analysis of ad-hoc video search tasks, discuss results, task design and methodological challenges. We highlight that almost all top performing systems utilize some sort of joint embedding for text-image retrieval and enable specification of temporal context in queries for known-item search. Whereas a combination of these techniques drive the currently top performing systems, we identify several future challenges for interactive video search engines and the Video Browser Showdown competition itself.

Abstract-The synchronized spontaneous low frequency fluctuations of the BOLD signal, as captured by functional MRI measurements, is known to represent the functional connections of different brain areas. The aforementioned MRI measurements result in high-dimensional time series, the dimensions of which correspond to the activity of different brain regions. Recently we have shown that Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance can be used as a similarity measure between BOLD signals of brain regions as an alternative of the traditionally used correlation coefficient. We have characterized the new metric's stability in multiple measurements, and between subjects in homogenous groups. In this paper we investigated the DTW metric's sensitivity and demonstrated that DTW-based models outperform correlation-based models in resting-state fMRI data classification tasks. Additionally, we show that functional connectivity networks resulting from DTW-based models as compared to the correlationbased models are more stable and sensitive to differences between healthy subjects and patient groups.