Instance Search Technology for Finding Specific Objects in Movies
Masaya Murata, Hidehisa Nagano, Ryo Mukai, Kaoru Hiramatsu, Kunio Kashino · NTT technical review · 2014
Successful retrieval of multimedia such as images or videos often involves utilizing their textual metadata.However, adding such metadata information to all multimedia of interest is far beyond our capability.We are therefore pursuing an effective and efficient content-based search methodology based solely on the multimedia content itself.Our research group has been actively advancing multimedia identification technologies for more than 5 years, and our latest search method makes it possible to search for and find specific objects in many kinds of movies.A specific object, person, or place, is called an instance, and the retrieval of an object is called an instance search.In this article, we overview our instance search methodology.