10 years of video browser showdown

Abstract

The Video Browser Showdown (VBS) has influenced the Multimedia community already for 10 years now. More than 30 unique teams from over 21 countries participated in the VBS since 2012 already. In 2021, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of VBS, where 17 international teams compete against each other in an unprecedented contest of fast and accurate multimedia retrieval. In this tutorial we discuss the motivation and details of the VBS contest, including its history, rules, evaluation metrics, and achievements for multimedia retrieval. We talk about the properties of specific VBS retrieval systems and their unique characteristics, as well as existing open-source tools that can be used as a starting point for participating for the first time. Participants of this tutorial get a detailed understanding of the VBS and its search systems, and see the latest developments of interactive video retrieval.