What is MediaMill?

The MediaMill semantic video search engine is bridging the gap between research and applications. It integrates the state-of-the-art techniques developed at the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam of the University of Amsterdam and applies it to realistic problems in video retrieval.

The techniques employed in MediaMill originate from various disciplines such as image and video processing, computer vision, language technology, machine learning and information visualization. To ensure state-of-the-art competitiveness, MediaMill participates in the yearly TRECVID benchmark.

MediaMill has its roots in the ICES-KIS Multimedia Information Analysis project (in conjunction with TNO) and the Innovative Research Program for Image processing (IOP). It blossomed in the BSIK program MultimediaN, and currently plays an important role in the EU FP-6 program VIDI-Video and the Dutch VENI SEARCHER project.

Latest News

1. Cees Snoek releases Pinkpop video search engine, in collaboration with Beeld en Geluid, CWI, UTwente, and Video Dock.
   December 2, 2009.
2. The slides from our ICCV tutorial on Coloring Visual Search are available for download.
   October 4, 2009.
3. The slides from our SSMS tutorial on Video Analysis and Retrieval are available for download.
   August 27, 2009.
4. Review paper on concept-based video retrieval, covering more than 300 references, now available .
   July 15, 2009.
5. Third VideOlympics held at ACM CIVR 2009
   July 9, 2009.
6. The slides from our CVPR tutorial on Video Search Engines are available for download.
   June 29, 2009.
7. Where to meet the MediaMill semantic video search engine in 2009:
   IEEE CVPR 2009, ACM CIVR 2009, IEEE ICCV 2009, ACM MM 2009, and TRECVID2009.
8. Cees Snoek was awarded a VENI grant by the Dutch organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for his research proposal entitled, SEARCHER: Substituting Experts by Amateurs for Concept-based Video Retrieval.
   August 5, 2008.