VBS 2025
The 14th VBS took place as a hybrid event with 16 international teams in Nara, Japan. Many thanks to the local organizers and all participating teams for this exciting event!
Evaluating Interactive Video Retrieval at Large Scale in a Comparative Environment
Next: VBS 2026 in Prague, Czech Republic
The 14th Video Browser Showdown (VBS 2025) took place in January 2025 in Nara, Japan, and it was an amazing event with many teams and a large crowd on-site. We used about 3800 hours of diverse video content from the V3C, MVK (Marine Video Kit) and LHE (Laparoscopic Hysterectomy) datasets. All search tasks could be solved, most of them very quickly. While being a professional video retrieval evaluation competition, it was a great fun and an entertaining event too! We thank all participants and contributors and look forward to the next iteration of the VBS, which will take place in January 2026 in Prague, Czech Republic. New teams that want to join should contact us as soon as possible, in order to share data, hints, and maybe even some tools that can help to start! Further down below you can also find examples of VBS systems, which will give you some inspiration for your own system.
VBS 2024
The 13th VBS took place as a hybrid event with 13 international teams, participating online and on-site in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
VBS 2023
The 12th VBS took place as a hybrid event with 12 international teams, most of them participating on-site in Bergen, Norway, in the Media City Bergen!
VBS 2022 (hybrid)
The 11th VBS took place as a hybrid event with 16 international teams, participating either online or on-site in lovely Phu Quoc, Vietnam.