In 2005, the best interactive video search came from the coordinating partner of this project, i.e. the University of Amsterdam.

VIDI-Video will boost the performance of video search by forming a 1000 element thesaurus detecting instances of audio, visual or mixed-media content. In the US, a similar grand challenge has been posed.

This project’s approach is to let the system learn many, possibly weaker, detectors instead of modelling a few of them carefully. The combination of many detectors describing different aspects of the video content will render a much richer basis for the semantics.

Project Duration: 2007-2010

Web site: http://www.vidi-video.it/