Are Concept Detector Lexicons Effective for Video Search?

Until now, systematic studies on the effectiveness of concept detectors for video search have been carried out using less than 20 detectors, or in combination with other retrieval techniques. We investigate whether video search using just large concept detector lexicons is a viable alternative for present day approaches. We demonstrate that increasing the number of concept detectors in a lexicon yields improved video retrieval performance indeed. In addition, we show that combining concept detectors at query time has the potential to boost performance further. We obtain the experimental evidence on the automatic video search task of TRECVID 2005 using 363 machine learned concept detectors.