V-QBE: video database retrieval by means of example motion of objects

Multimedia databases consist of text, static images, sound, and/or video. Video data is considered to be the most informative among those types of data. It conveys the meaning of a scene, the existence and/or motion of certain objects, and others. We present a system that retrieves video data by means of the motions of objects observed in video data in the database. That is, a query for a video database is specified by drawing an example trajectory of an object.