As in previous years, the 12th Video Browser Showdown (VBS2023) was a very successful and exciting event. This year we used 2300 hours of diverse video content (V3C1+V3C2) and 12 hours of highly redundant content (Marine). 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 late January 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 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.
The 12th VBS took place as a hybrid event with most of the teams participating on-site in Bergen, Norway. Many thanks to the local organizers and all participating teams for this wonderful event, which was performed in the Media City Bergen!
The 11th VBS took place as a hybrid event with most of the teams participating on-site in lovely Phu Quoc, Vietnam. Many thanks to the local organizers and all participating teams for this wonderful event!
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.
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.