So what can we actually do with content-based video retrieval?

Abstract

In this talk I will give a roller-coaster survey of the state of the art in automatic video analysis, indexing, summarisation, search and browsing as demonstrated in the annual TRECVid benchmarking evaluation campaign. I will concentrate on content-based techniques for video management which form a complement to the dominant paradigm of metadata or tag-based video management and I will use example techniques to illustrate these