Overview of the 1st International Workshop on Interactive Video Search and Exploration

Luca Rossetto, George Awad, Werner Bailer, Cathal Gurrin, Björn Þór Jónsson, Jakub Lokoč, Stevan Rudinac, Klaus Schoeffmann; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2025, pp. 3682-3687

The inaugural 1st International Workshop on Interactive Video Search and Exploration (IViSE), held at CVPR 2025, aims to explore means to overcome current limitations in fully automated methods in long-form video understanding, by focusing on human-machine teaming approaches. While fully automated approaches have been the main focus of the research community, notable breakthroughs have been made in interactive video search and exploration as well. This workshop aims to showcase the main advantages and limitations of both paradigms. IViSE is structured in a challenge format with two tracks: Video Known-Item Search and Video Question Answering. These tasks can either be solved in a fully automatic fashion or in an interactive way where humans and machines collaborate. The interactive challenge is held as a live session at the workshop itself. This paper provides an overview of the participating teams, their approaches for both task types and the ways of approaching them. It presents the results for the fully automatic track and outlines the methods to be used in the live evaluation event held during the workshop in June of 2025.