Evaluating Performance and Trends in Interactive Video Retrieval: Insights from the 12th VBS Competition

Lucia Vadicamo, Rahel Arnold, Werner Bailer, Fabio Carrara, Cathal Gurrin, Nico Hezel, Xinghan Li, Jakub Lokoc, Sebastian Lubos, Zhixin Ma, Nicola Messina, Thao Nhu Nguyen, Ladislav Peska, Luca Rossetto, Loris Sauter, Klaus Schoffmann, Florian Spiess, Minh Triet Tran, Stefanos Vrochidis

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Abstract

This paper conducts a thorough examination of the 12th Video Browser Showdown (VBS) competition, a well-established international benchmarking campaign for interactive video search systems. The annual VBS competition has witnessed a steep rise in the popularity of multimodal embedding-based approaches in interactive video retrieval. Most of the thirteen systems participating in VBS 2023 utilized a CLIP-based cross-modal search model, allowing the specification of free-form text queries to search visual content. This shared emphasis on joint embedding models contributed to balanced performance across various teams. However, the distinguishing factors of the top-performing teams included the adept combination of multiple models and search modes, along with the capabilities of interactive interfaces to facilitate and refine the search process. Our work provides an overview of the state-of-the-art approaches employed by the participating systems and conducts a thorough analysis of their search logs, which record user interactions and results of their queries for each task. Our comprehensive examination of the VBS competition offers assessments of the effectiveness of the retrieval models, browsing efficiency, and user query patterns. Additionally, it provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of interactive video retrieval and its future challenges.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)79342-79366
Number of pages25
JournalIEEE Access
Volume12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords

  • Browsers
  • content-based retrieval
  • Electronic mail
  • Europe
  • interactive evaluation campaign
  • interactive video retrieval
  • Market research
  • performance evaluation
  • Symbols
  • Task analysis
  • video browsing
  • video content analysis
  • Visualization
  • Content-based retrieval

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • General Materials Science
  • General Engineering

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