Congratulations to UIT Students for Winning First Place in the VBS 2025 Competition in Collaboration with the National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Sat, 01/03/2025 - 20:27

The NII_UIT Team, Composed of Members from the AI Club at UIT, Wins First Place in the VBS 2025 Competition

We are proud to announce that the NII_UIT team, consisting of members from the AI Club at UIT - University of Information Technology, in collaboration with the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, has won First Place in the VBS 2025 (Video Browser Showdown) competition. This competition focuses on video search on large datasets and was held annually alongside the MMM 2025 (Multimedia Modeling) conference, a prestigious event in the multimedia field, marking its 31st edition in Japan.

About VBS 2025 (Video Browser Showdown)

Video Browser Showdown (VBS) is an annual international competition where research and development teams from around the world demonstrate advanced video search systems. VBS 2025 involved over 17 teams from top universities worldwide. The competition continues to be a platform that promotes innovation in the field of multimedia information retrieval, aiming to develop powerful, intuitive tools that allow users to search for video content quickly and accurately within a massive dataset of over 9TB.

Challenges in VBS 2025

Complex content search: Teams are required to handle queries that include natural language, image or video samples, and efficiently combine information from multiple sources.
Real-time response capability: Teams must optimize their systems to provide results quickly from a dataset larger than 9TB.
Understanding multimedia context: The system must accurately recognize objects, scenes, actions, or minute details.
Language and cultural diversity: The system needs to effectively handle queries in various languages and cultural contexts.
User interface: The system must be intuitive and easy to use, enabling users to perform searches efficiently.

VBS 2025 is not only a place to showcase technological skills but also an opportunity for teams to learn from each other, exchange ideas, and promote the development of AI applications in the field of multimedia information retrieval.