- Visual Similarity Search
- Concept-based Retrieval
- Text to Video Matching
- Face Detection
- Video Captioning
- Activity Recognition
- Video Clustering
- Multimodal Fusion and Temporal Search
Evaluation of VERGE search engine is performed with participation in video retrieval related conferences and showcases as VBS, TRECVID and VideOlympics.
You can find information about how VERGE evolved the past years here.
Technology requirements
The search engine is built on the following open source technologies:
- HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery (front-end)
- PHP, Java, Python (back-end)
- Apache Server
- RESTful Web Services
- MongoDB
Contact information
Stelios Andreadis (andreadisst@iti.gr)
Anastasia Moumtzidou (moumtzid@iti.gr)
Ilias Gialampoukidis (heliasgj@iti.gr)
Stefanos Vrochidis (stefanos@iti.gr)
References
S. Andreadis, A. Moumtzidou, K. Apostolidis, K. Gkountakos, D. Galanopoulos, E. Michail, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, “VERGE in VBS 2020”, Proc. 26th Int. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling (MMM2020), 5-8 January 2020, Daejeon Convention Center (DCC), Korea.
S. Andreadis, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, F. Markatopoulou, K. Apostolidis, T. Mavropoulos, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, “VERGE in VBS 2019”, Proc. 25th Int. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling (MMM2019), Thessaloniki, Greece, Springer LNCS vol. 11296, pp. 602-608, Jan. 2019.
A. Moumtzidou, S. Andreadis, F. Markatopoulou, D. Galanopoulos, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, “VERGE IN VBS 2018”, Proc. 24th Int. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling (MMM2018), Bangkok, Thailand, Feb. 2018.
A. Moumtzidou, T. Mironidis, F. Markatopoulou, S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, D. Galanopoulos, A. Ioannidou, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, “VERGE IN VBS 2017”. In International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, pp. 486-492. Springer, Cham, 2017.
A. Moumtzidou, T. Mironidis, E. Apostolidis, F. Markatopoulou, A. Ioannidou, I. Gialampoukidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, “VERGE: A Multimodal Interactive Search Engine for Video Browsing and Retrieval”, Proc. Video Browser Showdown (VBS’16) at the 22nd Int. Conf. on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM’16), Miami, USA, 4 January 2016.
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.
A. Moumtzidou, K. Avgerinakis, E. Apostolidis, V. Aleksic, F. Markatopoulou, C. Papagiannopoulou, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, R. Busch, I. Kompatsiaris, “VERGE: An Interactive Search Engine for Browsing Video Collections“, Proc. Video Browser Showdown (VBS’14) at the 20th Int. Conf. on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM’14), Dublin, Ireland, Springer LNCS vol. 8326, pp. 411-414, January 2014.
S. Vrochidis, A. Moumtzidou, P. King, A. Dimou, V. Mezaris and I. Kompatsiaris, “VERGE: A video interactive retrieval engine”, in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2010), pp. 142-147, Grenoble, France, 23-25 June 2010.