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    A tale of two interfaces: vitrivr at the lifelog search challenge

    The past decades have seen an exponential growth in the amount of data which is produced by individuals. Smartphones which capture images, videos and sensor data have become commonplace, and wearables for fitn...

    Silvan Heller, Florian Spiess, Heiko Schuldt in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2023)

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    Traceable Asynchronous Workflows in Video Retrieval with vitrivr-VR

    Virtual reality (VR) interfaces allow for entirely new modes of user interaction with systems and interfaces. Much like in physical workspaces, documents, tools, and interfaces can be used, put aside, and used...

    Florian Spiess, Silvan Heller, Luca Rossetto, Loris Sauter in MultiMedia Modeling (2023)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Exploring Effective Interactive Text-Based Video Search in vitrivr

    vitrivr is a general purpose retrieval system that supports a wide range of query modalities. In this paper, we briefly introduce the system and describe the changes and adjustments made for the 2023 iteration...

    Loris Sauter, Ralph Gasser, Silvan Heller, Luca Rossetto in MultiMedia Modeling (2023)

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    Interactive video retrieval evaluation at a distance: comparing sixteen interactive video search systems in a remote setting at the 10th Video Browser Showdown

    The Video Browser Showdown addresses difficult video search challenges through an annual interactive evaluation campaign attracting research teams focusing on interactive video retrieval. The campaign aims to ...

    Silvan Heller, Viktor Gsteiger in International Journal of Multimedia Inform… (2022)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Multi-modal Interactive Video Retrieval with Temporal Queries

    This paper presents the version of vitrivr participating at the Video Browser Showdown (VBS) 2022. vitrivr already supports a wide range of query modalities, such as color and semantic sketches, OCR, ASR and t...

    Silvan Heller, Rahel Arnold, Ralph Gasser, Viktor Gsteiger in MultiMedia Modeling (2022)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Multi-modal Video Retrieval in Virtual Reality with vitrivr-VR

    In multimedia search, appropriate user interfaces (UIs) are essential to enable effective specification of the user’s information needs and the user-friendly presentation of search results. vitrivr-VR addresse...

    Florian Spiess, Ralph Gasser, Silvan Heller, Mahnaz Parian-Scherb in MultiMedia Modeling (2022)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    A Task Category Space for User-Centric Comparative Multimedia Search Evaluations

    In the last decade, user-centric video search competitions have facilitated the evolution of interactive video search systems. So far, these competitions focused on a small number of search task categories, wi...

    Jakub Lokoč, Werner Bailer, Kai Uwe Barthel, Cathal Gurrin in MultiMedia Modeling (2022)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Competitive Interactive Video Retrieval in Virtual Reality with vitrivr-VR

    Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged and developed as a new modality to interact with multimedia data. In this paper, we present vitrivr-VR, a prototype of an interactive multimedia retrieval system in VR based on...

    Florian Spiess, Ralph Gasser, Silvan Heller, Luca Rossetto in MultiMedia Modeling (2021)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Towards Explainable Interactive Multi-modal Video Retrieval with Vitrivr

    This paper presents the most recent iteration of the vitrivr multimedia retrieval system for its participation in the Video Browser Showdown (VBS) 2021. Building on existing functionality for interactive multi...

    Silvan Heller, Ralph Gasser, Cristina Illi, Maurizio Pasquinelli in MultiMedia Modeling (2021)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Combining Boolean and Multimedia Retrieval in vitrivr for Large-Scale Video Search

    This paper presents the most recent additions to the vitrivr multimedia retrieval stack made in preparation for the participation to the 9\(^{th}\) Video Browser Showdown (VBS) in 2020. In addition to refining ex...

    Loris Sauter, Mahnaz Amiri Parian, Ralph Gasser, Silvan Heller in MultiMedia Modeling (2020)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Vitrivr-Explore: Guided Multimedia Collection Exploration for Ad-hoc Video Search

    vitrivr is an open-source system for indexing and retrieving multimedia data based on its content and it has been a fixture at the Video Browser Showdown (VBS) in the past years. While vitrivr has proven to be...

    Silvan Heller, Mahnaz Parian, Maurizio Pasquinelli in Similarity Search and Applications (2020)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Deep Learning-Based Concept Detection in vitrivr

    This paper presents the most recent additions to the vitrivr retrieval stack, which will be put to the test in the context of the 2019 Video Browser Showdown (VBS). The vitrivr stack has been extended by approach...

    Luca Rossetto, Mahnaz Amiri Parian, Ralph Gasser, Ivan Giangreco in MultiMedia Modeling (2019)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Searching in Video Collections Using Sketches and Sample Images – The Cineast System

    With the increasing omnipresence of video recording devices and the resulting abundance of digital video, finding a particular video sequence in ever-growing collections is more and more becoming a major chall...

    Luca Rossetto, Ivan Giangreco, Silvan Heller, Claudiu Tănase in MultiMedia Modeling (2016)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    IMOTION – Searching for Video Sequences Using Multi-Shot Sketch Queries

    This paper presents the second version of the IMOTION system, a sketch-based video retrieval engine supporting multiple query paradigms. Ever since, IMOTION has supported the search for video sequences on the ...

    Luca Rossetto, Ivan Giangreco, Silvan Heller, Claudiu Tănase in MultiMedia Modeling (2016)