VBS 2021 (virtual)
The 10th Anniversary VBS 2021 took place in Prague, Czech Republic, on June 23, 2021 and was held fully virtual. It was also a successful live test of the new VBS Server DRES (Distributed Retrieval Evaluation Server).
Evaluating Interactive Video Retrieval
VBS 2021 in Prague (virtual)
As in previous years, also the 10th anniversary Video Browser Showdown (VBS2021) was a great success and a wonderful event. Even though we used a very challenging dataset (V3C1) with 1000 hours of video content, all teams were able to solve a lot of search tasks very quickly. While being a professional video retrieval evaluation competition, it was a very exciting and entertaining event as well! We thank all participants and contributors and look forward to the next iteration of the VBS, which will take place in April 2022 in Qui Nhon, Vietnam. 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 2020 in Daejeon
The VBS 2020 took place in Daejeon, South Korea, on January 6, 2020. We used 1000 hours of video content for the evaluation (V3C1 dataset) and a lot of challenging visual and textual KIS tasks.
Teams in Action
The VBS lasts for a few hours, where either experts (developers/researchers) or novices (volunteers from the audience) of all teams try to solve KIS and AVS tasks as fast as possible.
AVS and KIS Tasks
Known-Item Search (KIS) require to find a very specific segment in the video collection (which is either described by text or video presentation), while Ad-Hoc Video (AVS) task require to find as many examples of a specific topic, as possible.
Viret
The video retrieval tool from the SIRET research group at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) was the overall winner at the VBS 2018 competition.
diveXplore
This is very flexible interactive video retrieval tool developed by the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC) at Klagenfurt University (Austria). At VBS 2018 it scored 2nd in total.
Vibro
This is the video browsing system developed by HTW Berlin (Germany) and used for the VBS for several years with incremental improvements. In 2016 this tool won the VBS competition!
vitrivr
This tool is follow-up development of the IMOTION search system, which won the VBS 2017 competition. It provides many different and effective filtering options with efficient search methods and is available as an open source software!