In addition to the papers describing the VBS systems of each year of the Video Browser Showdown, a few papers have been published that describe the VBS competition, the dataset, and/or perform comparative evaluations of different teams or tasks.

Highly Recommended Citations

  • Lokoč, J., Andreadis, S., Bailer, W. et al. Interactive video retrieval in the age of effective joint embedding deep models: lessons from the 11th VBS. Multimedia Systems (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-023-01143-5
  • Truong, QT. et al. (2023). Marine Video Kit: A New Marine Video Dataset for Content-Based Analysis and Retrieval. In: Dang-Nguyen, DT., et al. MultiMedia Modeling. MMM 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13833. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27077-2_42
  • Jakub Lokoč, Patrik Veselý, František Mejzlík, Gregor Kovalčík, Tomáš Souček, Luca Rossetto, Klaus Schoeffmann, Werner Bailer, Cathal Gurrin, Loris Sauter, Jaeyub Song, Stefanos Vrochidis, Jiaxin Wu, and Björn þóR Jónsson. 2021. Is the Reign of Interactive Search Eternal? Findings from the Video Browser Showdown 2020. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. 17, 3, Article 91 (August 2021), 26 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3445031
  • Luca Rossetto, Klaus Schoeffmann, Abraham Bernstein. 2021. Insights on the V3C2 Dataset. Proceedings of arXiv. Link
  • Luca Rossetto, Ralph Gasser, Silvan Heller, Mahnaz Parian-Scherb, Loris Sauter, Florian Spiess, Heiko Schuldt, Ladislav Peska, Tomas Soucek, Miroslav Kratochvil, Frantisek Mejzlik, Patrik Vesely, Jakub Lokoc. 2021. On the User-centric Comparative Remote Evaluation of Interactive Video Search Systems. IEEE MultiMedia. Link
  • Luca Rossetto, Ralph Gasser, Jakub Lokoc, Werner Bailer, Klaus Schoeffmann, Bernd Muenzer, Tomas Soucek, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Paolo Bolettieri, Andreas Leibetseder, Stefanos Vrochidis. 2020. Interactive Video Retrieval in the Age of Deep Learning – Detailed Evaluation of VBS 2019. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE, New York, NY, Early Access.
  • Klaus Schoeffmann. 2019. Video Browser Showdown 2012-2019: A Review. 2019 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Dublin, Ireland, 2019, pp. 1-4.  Link
  • Jakub Lokoc, Gregor Kovalcik, Bernd Münzer, Klaus Schöffmann, Werner Bailer, Ralph Gasser, Stefanos Vrochidis, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Sitapa Rujikietgumjorn, and Kai Uwe Barthel. 2019. Interactive Search or Sequential Browsing? A Detailed Analysis of the Video Browser Showdown 2018. Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, 15, 1, ACM, 24 pages, Article No. 29. Early Access
  • Jakub Lokoc, Werner Bailer, Klaus Schoeffmann, Bernd Münzer, George Awad. 2018. On Influential Trends in Interactive Video Retrieval: Video Browser Showdown 2015-2017. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE, New York, NY, 16 pages, PDF   Early Access
  • Luca Rossetto, Heiko Schuldt, George Awad, and Asad A. Butt. 2019. V3C – A Research Video Collection. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling 2019 (MMM2019). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11295, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 349-360. Springer Link. Teaser Video.
  • Klaus Schoeffmann, „A User-Centric Media Retrieval Competition: The Video Browser Showdown 2012-2014„, in IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 21, No. 4, Oct.-Dec., 2014, pp. 8-13. Link

 

Further Evaluation Papers

This work evaluates the Video Browser Showdown from 2015 to 2017:

      • Jakub Lokoc, Werner Bailer, Klaus Schoeffmann, Bernd Münzer, George Awad. 2018. On Influential Trends in Interactive Video Retrieval: Video Browser Showdown 2015-2017. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE, New York, NY, 16 pages, PDF   Early Access

The following journal paper (online available via Open Access) evaluates the performance of tools used for VBS2015:

      • Claudiu Cobarzan, Klaus Schoeffmann, Werner Bailer, Wolfgang Hürst, Adam Blazek, Jakub Lokoc, Stefanos Vrochidis, Kai U. Barthel, and Luca Rossetto. 2017. Interactive Video Search Tools: A Detailed Analysis of the Video Browser Showdown 2015. Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), 76, 4, Springer, USA, 5539-5571. Springer Link

The following journal paper, which is available online, evaluates the performance of tools used in VBS2013 in direct comparison to interactive search with a common video player:

      • Klaus Schoeffmann, David Ahlström, Werner Bailer, Claudiu Cobarzan, Frank Hopfgartner, Kevin McGuinness, Cathal Gurrin, Christian Frisson, Duy-Dinh Le, Manfred del Fabro, Hongliang Bai, and Wolfgang Weiss, „The Video Browser Showdown: A Live Evaluation of Interactive Video Search Tools„, in International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (MMIR), Springer, 2013.  Springer Link

 

Video Browsing in General

An introduction to video browsing in general and an overview of video interaction tools is given in the following papers:

    • Klaus Schoeffmann, Marco A. Hudelist, Jochen Huber, „Video Interaction Tools: A Survey of Recent Work„, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 48, No. 1, Article 14, 2015, pp. 1-34. Link
    • Klaus Schoeffmann, Frank Hopfgartner, Oge Marques, Laszlo Boeszoermenyi, and Joemon M. Jose, „Video browsing interfaces and applications: a review„, in SPIE Reviews , Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-35 (018004), SPIE, Online, March 2010. Link to online version (Open Access).
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