VERGE

VERGE is a hybrid interactive video retrieval system, which is capable of searching into video content by integrating different search modules that employ visual- and textual-based techniques.

Developed in first semester of 2015 by ITI-CERTH. VERGE participated in TRECVID 2015 in the Instance search (INS) & Surveillance event detection (SED) tasks.

Functionalities provided:

• Visual Similarity search
• Visual concept-based search
• Search by image example
• Endless scrolling
• Fast video navigation

An operational demo of the system is available http://mklab-services.iti.gr/vss2016/

Prerequisites:

• A local server running to your pc

Instructions:

• Unzip the files to your htdocs folder and explore VERGE interface using your browser

A. Moumtzidou, K. Avgerinakis, E. Apostolidis, F. Markatopoulou, K. Apostolidis, T. Mironidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, Y. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, "VERGE: A Multimodal Interactive Video Search Engine", Proc. 21st Int. Conf. on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM15), Sydney, Australia, Jan. 2015.